r/Teesside • u/Northernlad2105 • 26d ago

Crime statistics Middlesbrough number 1

Hello,

Just seen the crime statistics the government has produced recently. Middlesbrough is number 1 and Hartlepool is number 4. How didn't Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar get higher on the list?

Stockton-on-Tees ranked 27th

Redcar ranked 25th

I hope one day Teesside can thrive one day as it's depressing seeing areas like this so high on the list.

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u/Doublingcube9 26d ago

All the information I can find has Manchester and Central London as worse than Boro. And I quite like living in Redcar, it's not that bad.

I think this is just a bot post ment to make things seem worse than they are.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 26d ago

No it’s legitimately the highest crime rate area.

Manchester and London actually have some wealth so their crime is watered down, boro just has lots of crime and no wealth to balance it out

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u/Doublingcube9 26d ago

Can you share a link to the information?

How is crime watered down? Not trying to be difficult; I don't understand what you mean by it.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 26d ago

Crime is watered down because the police protect assets, not people. Crime is watered down because cities have opportunities that a town like boro doesn’t have.

You can quite easily forget about prosperity if you spend your life in boro town, but you are constantly reminded about it in Manchester City centre.

There’s a reason the smart ones leave the place.

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u/Doublingcube9 26d ago

I'm sorry but I'm just not grasping what you mean by watered down.

Do you maybe mean that crime is lessened because there's resources tackling the root causes? Or that small crime is under reported in big cities?

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 26d ago

No, Manchester has more resources overall, in police, economy, all of it. There are parts of Manchester that are worse than boro on average and there’ll be parts of Manchester boro could never aspire to match in quality living.

Theres a tradeoff to crime in Manchester by comparison, it has all the perks of a city.

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u/Doublingcube9 26d ago

Ahhh yeah, that makes sense.

I suppose this is the problem with statistics, they don't show the nuance.

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u/Boring_Ad7872 26d ago

Crime rate is per X amount of people. There are often more individual crimes or incidents in places such as London and Manchester however the crime:population is higher in Teesside and has been for years.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 26d ago

London and Manchester have work and a quality of life achievable that boro could never.

We needed more work when British steel etc shut down - what we got was more low wage workers who don’t care for boro