Manchester Chief Constable denies trying to 'airbrush' riots

REPORTS today that the crime statistics are ignoring the riots were denied by Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, who said: 'It is plain silly to try to assess the impact of the riots in terms of the number of individual crimes committed'. In Manchester's St. Anns Square for example, where some of the worst violence took place, the site shows the lowest level of crime for four months, with just 21 incidents. In Manchester city centre as a wholem a rise was recorded in August, but the figure of 1,828 street-level offences was just 10 above April and 12 more than February, the shortest month. Mr Fahy said his force recorded 242 crimes in the city centre and 139 in Salford linked to the riots. Today's The Independent has a cartoon with a copper saying: 'Someone stole the crime figures.'
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