Poor Keith, If it isn't Alzheiners its chronic Myopia.


No keith,

First of all, the link does not lead to the Guardian.

Second, you have merely provided part of a comment which you have selectively edited, The bit you quote comes from the Daily Mail and the rest of the comment says "Kinda puzzling really how most papers quote these figures!"

It says that because the actual article my link leads to provides information that The Mail forgot to report.

Like Straws comment:

"Jack Straw, Blackburn MP, said: "These figures show what a great job Lancashire police is doing and the effectiveness of the Engage programme.

"The breakdown by ethnicity is consistent with what I've said all along, that the majority of perpetrators of this type of crime are white. "


Here's the title of the report.

"50 East Lancashire men warned over child grooming"

Its an article about a new way of preventing children from being groomed and abducted on the street.

As Street grooming ois not a crime, they can't arrest them, so instead they iissue them with a notice banning them from stopping and chatting to young children on the street.

It states:

"MORE than 50 men have been issued with 'abduction notices' to stop them approaching children in East Lancashire."

and

"For example, a letter can warn the person not to stop and talk to under-age children in his car."

And no you don't have to be a convicted Paedophile.

"Police said the notices were used as a 'shot across the bows' by officers when there was evidence of concerning behaviour by potential abusers."

then

"Specialist team Engage in Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley, has identified 134 victims and Freedom in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, has helped 61 victims.

The team has also identified 44 individuals involved in sexual exploitation of which 32 were white, 11 Asian and 1 other.

Of those, 20 have been arrested, five charged and 21 abduction notices issued."

and

"Pennine's Freedom team, which has dedicated police, children's services and a health nurse, has identified 13 individuals, of whom five are white and eight asian.

They have made 10 arrests leading to one charge and issued 33 abduction notices."

I suspect you will ignore all that or try to suggest that Straw meant something entirely different.

However, his words clearly contradict your assertion that this is a peculiarly Pakistani problem.