... gun crime. FACT: Part of the apparent huge percentage increase in gun crime results from changes in how the police record crime. Two years ago the police were criticised for not recording crimes reported to them in order to make their clear-up rates look better. Now they are under more pressure to record crimes, the statistics have jumped upwards. The British Crime Survey found that violent crime has fallen by 17 percent since 1999. The survey says, "For violence against the person offences, the impact of recording changes may have been to turn a 5 percent real fall into an 8 percent increase." CULTURE SECRETARY Kim Howells has attacked the "macho idiots" of rap music. Howells has never laid into the violence and bigotry promoted by white rock groups, and he ignores black singers who denounce violence like Ms Dynamite. At the rugby clubs in Howell's Pontypridd constituency he could hear ...

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