"Torquay is the most dangerous medium-sized town in Devon, and is the second most dangerous overall out of Devon's 430 towns, villages, and cities.
"The overall crime rate in Torquay in 2020 was 101 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Devon's overall crime rate, coming in 49% higher than the Devon rate of 51 per 1,000 residents."
The most common crimes in Torquay are violence and sexual offences, with 2,417 offences during 2020, giving a crime rate of 47. This is 7 per cent lower than 2019's figure of 2,579 offences and a difference of 3.18 from 2019's crime rate of 51.
Torquay's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 26 offences recorded in 2020, an increase of 23 per cent from 2019's figure of 20 crimes.
Hmmmm, I'd like to see the ethnic stats for Torquay and surrounds. Also from Devon Live:
Torquay is the place where the chav culture originated. The people who are lucky to escape the ghetto often find themselves struggling in the real world outside of Torquay. 15 Dec 2017
Do British seaside resorts attract the dregs of society?
https://unherd.com/2019/04/why-lifes-no-beach-by-the-seaside/
The donkey rides, carousels and pink sticks of rock hide a multitude of problems. In Blackpool, a process of ‘regeneration’ has started, in an attempt to drag the town into the 21stcentury. The plan, according to locals, is to give Blackpool a “dynamic feel”. Hundreds of millions of pounds has been spent jazzing up the promenade along the famous ‘golden mile’.
White light in gaudy surrounds ... right, gotcha. I also read that Britain's seaside towns will have to "diversify". Ah, compound the problem, eh?
"The overall crime rate in Torquay in 2020 was 101 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Devon's overall crime rate, coming in 49% higher than the Devon rate of 51 per 1,000 residents."
ReplyDeleteUm. That's 98% higher. You don't get to compare the worst in that way.
I'm sure Torquay is the very model of propriety, not unlike Southend so I've been told.
DeleteI can only speak of Scotland, of which I have experience. Now that supersize regions have taken over the responsibilities of town councils "social" housing is allocated regardless of family history and local connections.
ReplyDeleteNow what locations have lots of spare accommodation outside the high holiday seasons?
And given the choice would you choose a nice seaside resort or a city slum?
This makes the nice seaside resort less desirable as a family holiday destination.
And so it spirals (helixes) down.
Doonhammer - Bingo!
ReplyDeleteI recently read a statistic that indicated that 33% of The US' population of those with mental health issues now reside in California, thus witness the 'homeless' camps (in reality mentally ill), drug/alcohol (self-medicating mentally ill) and sky-rocketing crime wave (perpetrated by ... you get the picture).
If there anything the last couple of years (if not decades) has done is to disabuse us of the silly notion that mental illness is 'rare'. A substantial fraction (if not a majority) of the problems we see in modern society can be laid at the door of those who closed the 'institutions' (purely coincidentally profiting mightily from the real estate deals they made afterwards)and pushed for the (obviously) idiotic 'care in the community' farce. But not being satisfied with just that farrago, they decided to double-down and import as many of the rest of the worlds mentally ill too.
(As a nurse in London some decades ago I noted both that Ireland had a really low incidence of mental illness - lower than any other western nation, and purely coincidentally, our mental health wards were 98% filled with ... Irish patients. Much easier to export the problem to the, hated/we want nothing to do with ... well except to expect them to subsidise us, England than deal with the issue, just like crime, alcoholism, drugs, etc. ... and the rest of the world thought ... 'Hey, that's a good idea' and here we are.).