UK agency disputes Trump tweet on rising crime, terrorism
Source: The Hill
The British agency cited by President Trump in an early-morning tweet linking rising crime in the U.K. to Islamic extremism disagrees with his assessment of the data.
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But the U.K.'s Office for National Statistics told The Washington Post on Friday that the study cited by Trump actually shows no link between violent crime and terrorism.
“The simple answer,” a spokesman told the Post by phone, “is that our statistical release bulletin yesterday made no link between terrorism and violent crime.”
In a written statement to the Post, another spokesman for the agency explained that police in the U.K. are responding to growing levels of crime, most notably sex crimes which rose 19 percent due to "significant under-recording" in previous years.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/356386-uk-agency-refutes-trump-tweet-on-rising-crime-rates-terrorism
Not as colorful as the British quotes I posted about earlier, but these are official.
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