I am perfectly happy that on reading all my posts as a whole on this thread that I have made some very valid points which make for justifiably uncomfortable reading, and which have not been properly answered.. Councillor Vlod now says Over a decade of simplistic target setting by this Government shows that focus on apparently simple figures distorts priorities. Also he complains about proving a point with statistics. Councillor Phil on his website uses perceptions of a few thousand people to make the point that crime is what concerns the people of Ealing most. Councillor Vlod also calls for an intelligent debate without starting one himself even though he is paid to be in the picture. At the moment I have an almost incontrovertible impression that violent crime is the biggest problem, and that crime is rising in Ealing unlike in London as a whole. If you wish to dispel that impression, then please do so, but not with soundbites about past successes and not in a selective fashion. So why don’t you refer to a couple of papers or so with links which set out a well reasoned analysis as to what really is going on in Ealing, and also how the crime problems have been responded to in terms of policy, and what successes and failures we have been having, and where the policy has been tweaked to meet areas of slippage. We could then begin to appreciate what Councillor Vlod means by his use of the word priorities and perhaps understand the role of the Council and the role of the police and the parameters in which they operate. We could also then have a better tool for deciding whether we agree with his set of priorities. If you do not like priorities being distorted by the government, but you think you deserve credit and continuing trust for alleged success by using some different and perhaps better methodology, then let’s have the evidence. As is known I like evidence in context. I suspect that Councillor Vlod does as well. How else can informed decisions be made?

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
A selective truth	09/03/10 14:59:00	George Knox
Re:A selective truth	10/03/10 04:23:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:A selective truth	10/03/10 10:08:00	Arthur Breens
Re:Re:Re:A selective truth	10/03/10 12:17:00	Peter Chadburn
Statistics	12/03/10 12:39:00	Vlod Barchuk
Re:Statistics	12/03/10 13:13:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:Statistics	12/03/10 13:49:00	Vlod Barchuk
Re:Re:Re:Statistics	12/03/10 13:58:00	Peter Chadburn
A selective truth	12/03/10 14:16:00	George Knox
Re:Re:Re:Statistics	12/03/10 14:50:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:Re:Re:Statistics	14/03/10 23:57:00	Arthur Breens
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Statistics	15/03/10 06:57:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Statistics	15/03/10 10:10:00	Alan Brainsby
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Statistics	16/03/10 21:53:00	Vlod Barchuk
Ok let's have the evidence	17/03/10 00:21:00	George Knox
Re:Ok let's have the evidence	18/03/10 14:58:00	Charles Gallichan
Re:Re:Ok let's have the evidence	18/03/10 15:22:00	Phil Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Ok let's have the evidence	18/03/10 22:47:00	Editor
Re:Re:Ok let's have the evidence	22/03/10 19:55:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:Re:Ok let's have the evidence	22/03/10 22:25:00	Charles Gallichan
Re:A selective truth	18/03/10 15:58:00	Tracey Beesley
Re:Re:A selective truth	18/03/10 16:42:00	Diane Gill
Re:Re:Re:A selective truth	20/03/10 15:04:00	Arthur Breens
Councillor Vlod. Are you there please?	22/03/10 22:20:00	George Knox
Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	02/04/10 13:11:00	George Knox
Re:Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	03/04/10 20:31:00	Charles Gallichan
Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	02/04/10 13:11:00	George Knox
Re:Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	16/04/10 11:47:00	George Knox
Re:Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	16/04/10 11:47:00	George Knox
Re:Re:Councillor Vlod. Are you snoozing?	25/04/10 23:24:00	Arthur Breens
Yellow vested vigilantes	11/04/11 17:41:00	George Knox
Re:Yellow vested vigilantes	19/06/11 17:56:00	Eric Alan Leach
Fiddling while Rome burns	19/06/11 22:45:00	George Knox

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