"figures on crime" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It typically refers to statistical data or information related to criminal activity. Example: According to recent figures on crime, there has been a decrease in thefts in the city center.
Official figures on crime, unemployment and immigration all rely on people with clipboards talking to a tiny fraction of the overall population and drawing sweeping conclusions.
The other day, as we were reading that the figures on crime in the U.S. had gone up again, we were reminded of a phrase that we had not heard for quite a while: law and order.
By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, January 6 , 1975P. 23 The other day, as we were reading that the figures on crime in the U.S. had gone up again, we were reminded of a phrase that we had not heard for quite a while: law and order.
Official figures on crime are published every quarter and are drawn from two sources.
Meanwhile, the police figures on reported crime for England and Wales showed a fall across most of the main categories of crime, with 3.7 million offences recorded in the year ending December 2013 - down 2% from the previous year.
The Labour MP Tom Watson has written to the UK Statistics Authority claiming Johnson has given misleading figures on knife crime.
Published under a new code of practice for official statistics, drawn up last year after ministers were caught massaging figures on knife crime, the report was pure, sober joy: long may the rule of the nerds continue.Charges were brought against 35% of the suspects, which is roughly in line with other indictable (that is, serious) offences, according to the Home Office.
The 10-year-old study was launched partly because of contradictory official figures on violent crime.
Public order offences in the town centre have fallen 5% in the last year, according to detailed figures on the crime map for the area.
The report does not include figures on drug crimes, because they are considered to be victimless and are hard to measure.
The latest figures on sexual crimes from a survey by the justice ministry, home office and office for national statistics reveal the serious and shocking scale of the problem: one in 20 women is raped or undergoes a serious sexual assault by the age of 60, and 85,000 women are raped a year.
