Which is my point entirely.

"Unreported crime" is "no crime" to you, the government or anyone else.

I -KNOW- this is reality, it's plainer to me than that water is wet and the fact that evidence doesn't exist for it is _precisely_ what I'm saying.

(and actually house prices are cheaper in Coventry than anywhere else in the west midlands)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=... [Coventry, terraced, sold in the last year]

vs

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=... [Kenilworth, terraced, sold in last year]

lets add some "OPed" articles because stats aren't really worthy in this situation: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/all-about/wood-end

The "isolation" of crime: (it's really not isolated, but more.. concentrated): http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/third-co...

The british crime survey does not use police reported crime! Those numbers are entirely separate from police reported crime.

Your last link makes you case much weaker, not stronger. Do you understand that? There's probably not much point carrying on if you don't.

what you're saying is "I want stats that prove that that statistics of Coventry is going unreported". what kinda non-anecdotal proof would you like? the OP's point is that the the stats are a lie, cause most crime is unreported.

OP isn't just saying that crime is unreported. Because if all crime everywhere is unreported we can still compare Coventry with other towns, and when we do that we see that coventry has a lower than average crime rate. OP is claiming that Coventry is unique in having under reported crime and that everywhere else is accurate.

But not only that. There are other statistics - the british crime survey - (and these are robust statistics) that do not rely on crime reported to police. And OP is again claiming that Coventry is unique in reporting very low rates of crime while everywhere else reports accurate rates of crime.

But even if we assume that's true - that Coventry is unique in reporting and surveying low rates of crime while everywhere else is accurate - there are other indicators of crime. We'd expect to see higher rates for car insurace, and we don't. We'd expect to see higher rates of home contents insurance, and we don't.

OP is subject to a pretty obvious confirmation bias. "I had my bicycles stolen, and this i know Coventry is high in crime", and now they reject anything that points the other way. When you ask OP about the evidence they just come back with anecdote, when you show OP anything that contradicts that they say it's wrong (not just wrong, but wrong in very particular ways).