Knifecrime Island Crimes Enumerated

“Reports of a baby being dangled from a bridge turned out to be mistaken — it was a dog.”
-Britain’s Greater Manchester Police conducted a pretty amazing demonstration yesterday in which they posted every incident they were called about to Twitter. (The entire thing is archived here.) We make a lot of fun of the British because of their bizarre, media-fostered paranoia about crime (and also because they are filthy savages) but reading through this list is a pretty good reminder of just how quotidian police work is in many places.