O/T Completely out of character for Liverpool.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Rotherham is the safest major town in South Yorkshire, and is the 33rd most dangerous overall out of South Yorkshire's 109 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Rotherham in 2021 was 104 crimes per 1,000 people.

Compared to the national crime rate, Liverpool's crime rate is at 147%. Violent crime makes up 38.8% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 48.4k, and this number has increased by 22.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of September 2021 - August 2022.

[poddington]

Liverpool is a wonderfully, upwardly mobile, vibrant city that makes Rotherham look like a boil on the ar*ehole of Britain. Yes, it, like most places, have isolated drug issues, but so does Eastwood and Canklow. Carry on with outdated clichéd stereotyping if it makes you feel proud of yourself.

I lived in Liverpool for many years (relatively recently), I disagree with you completely. Not great at all. As Grist points out, I know where I’d rather be.

[John2]

Rotherham is the safest major town in South Yorkshire, and is the 33rd most dangerous overall out of South Yorkshire's 109 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Rotherham in 2021 was 104 crimes per 1,000 people.

Compared to the national crime rate, Liverpool's crime rate is at 147%. Violent crime makes up 38.8% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 48.4k, and this number has increased by 22.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of September 2021 - August 2022.

Liverpool does have the higher rate, but I'm curious why you've jumped between completely different metrics? Comparing "x in 1000" to a percentage of the national average tells us nothing.

E.g. If the national average was 50 crimes in 1000 then Liverpool's 147% would be 74 per 1000 and Rotherham's crime rate would be at 208%.

Liverpool is actually at 128 for comparison.

[poddington]

Merseyside’s real challenge is with drug-related crimes. Across all of England and Wales, the average number of ‘drug offences’ is 3.0 per 1,000. In Merseyside, it is 8.3 per 1,000, giving the region the highest drug-related crime rate in the country by far.

[avondalemiller]

Who cares?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Who cares?

Yep, my thoughts exactly

[John2]

Yep, my thoughts exactly

lol, avondale has a point, but you went to the trouble of writing two paragraphs on the subject before making this comment.

[great_fire]

Rotherham is the safest major town in South Yorkshire, and is the 33rd most dangerous overall out of South Yorkshire's 109 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Rotherham in 2021 was 104 crimes per 1,000 people.

I think by "safest" they mean there aren't as many crimes recorded in the town centre compared to the other town centres. But that's because no-one goes into the town centre, half of it is boarded up.

It's like in London where the tourist areas are high crime areas because of the robberies and pickpocketing.