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How reliable are crime statistics?

In recent years the statistics show crime has been coming down, but not everybody believes it.
A third of us don’t trust the police to record all crime properly - sometimes the police decide what has been reported isn’t actually a crime, or that the offence is different to the one originally reported.
And there have been cases where officers have deliberately massaged the figures, usually to meet targets.
Dan Johnson reports.

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