The same government which has declared "Asian grooming gangs" to be a 'racist' term for gangs of Pakistani immigrants who committed hundreds of sex crimes against young girls? It's certainly a possibility.

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/islamophobia-racis...

Please would you take a moment to consider why people might be so quick to blame this on immigrants and why it might be unhelpful to repeat that claim? Noting the facts given in that Times piece don't support it.

because stats, raw numbers are raw numbers and an non-eu imigrant is 5x more likely to commit a serious crime.

And lets not open whole muslim can of worms where crime vs infidels are not seen as crimes and even if seen as crime its illegal for muslim to side with infidel side.

I think most of the people you’re referring to are british citizens whose families have lived in the uk for generations. Maybe there’s something about being a british citizen that predisposes one to be an owner/operator of a grooming gang? After all, 88% of ‘grooming gang’ perpetrators are white…

I strongly suspect that it's harder to find suspects to charge who have fewer local links and less documentation. I also suspect the CPS is probably failing to bring cases in a level and fair way, why bother when the judge will let them off without jail time because of 'cultural differences'? [0][1]. We know that migrants are 350% more likely to be arrested for sexual crimes than British citizens [2], but that's only some of the picture and the government wont release full figures.

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268395/Adil-Rashid...

[1] https://www.deccanherald.com/world/rapist-uk-spared-jail-bei...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/05/foreign-national...

Do you have a source more credible than right wing tabloids for this?

Go fuck yourself.

Reading the article linked, then consulting the internet for the most unsolved crimes area, the people in the area are overwhelmingly white and born in the UK. 83% white and 84% born in the UK.

Beacon Road: https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/ct103dg

The police have been for decades failing to bring cases against none white perpetrators to the same degree as they have with white perpetrators for the fear of looking racist. That's what the controversy is about.

I was under the impression that this has been verifiably true for years now.

>verifiably true

Who/how was it verified?

There literally was a national-level inquiry investigated when the Tories were in power and a set of recommendations were put forth as a result of that inquiry. The current Labour govt is actively implementing those recommendations. If there's one thing that's bipartisan, it's this.

Police funding was cut significantly after the financial crisis and is only just being restored to pre-GFC levels: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/perfor...

The number of reported sexual offences has increased by double digits over the last reporting period, and did the same in the last one: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

There are a variety of factors at play behind the rise in reports, including high profile cases such as the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, in addition to massive coverage of historic sexual abuse by public figures like Jimmy Savile. There have been multiple high profile campaigns for women’s safety encouraging them to come forward and report cases of sexualised violence.

So despite the police force certainly allocating more resources to deal with these cases, the increase outstrips this. In addition, sexualised violence is notoriously difficult to prosecute beyond a reasonable doubt due to the ‘he said she said’ nature of a lot of the evidence and the delay in many of the victims coming forward.

Your point about immigration has a simple answer; it’s not a factor. This talking point serves to take very real social problems the country faces and use them to score political points by distorting the facts.

Case in point the grooming gangs scandal which was painted as a Pakistani muslim problem when it turns out Asians are UNDERrepresented and whites are actually OVERrepresented in the actual figures (88% of offences were committed by whites with them making up 83% of the population, south asians committed 7% of offences while making up 9% of the population)

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2025/01/the-gr...

Educate yourself and stop using my country’s problems to further your political agenda.

My political agenda? Its an article from your country that implied it and I called it out for being bad. If you think my comment is pushing that agenda you have poor reading skills, it was very clearly strongly the opposite.

Why might certain groups be underrepresented or over-represented in the figures? Perhaps it's because for decades certain groups have not been properly prosecuted, eg the whole point of the controversy around grooming gangs.

It’s not bad journalism, it’s modern journalism! It reports data and invites readers like you to confirm your preconceived biases with it, such that it never challenges those beliefs and risks losing you as a reader, nor risks confirming your beliefs and losing other readers. It’s win win all around!