Decrease in Violent Crime Reported in England and Wales
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence, burglary and car crime have been declining for 30 years (by 80 -90%.) This decrease reflects a general trend for high income countries and is believed to be partly due to increased security measures for homes and cars. The public perception that crime has increased seems to be influenced by how mainstream media focus on bad news and political rhetoric. This report comes from GoodGoodGood
A related article from BBC reports “Serious Violence Falls Sharply in England and Wales.”
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Meet the Man who Saved One of India’s Largest Forests
Alok Shukla was honored to win the 2024 Goldman Award, also known as the “Green Nobel” for saving one of India’s largest forests from coal mining. Read more about the importance of his work in this article from the Good News Network.
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Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Research
Scientists have learned how to keep samples of human breast tissue alive for a week or more outside the body. This breakthrough will allow testing with “far greater accuracy” on specific types of breast tissue and will also reduce testing on animals. The Guardian has details HERE.
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Native American Doctors Graduate from Reservation College
Nine Native Americans are graduating medical school from Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. This is the first physician training program located on a Native American reservation. Read more about the program and the students in this article from PBS.
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Retiring Foster Mom Honored After Raising over 40 Children
Foster parent Emma Patterson was honored after fostering more than 40 children over three decades. Watch the video to learn more about this special lady:
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June 4, 2024 at 10:32 am
These are all terrific articles. The crime one is very heartening.
June 4, 2024 at 9:36 pm
I’m so glad you enjoyed the good news, Robbie. Yes, the decrease in crime is heartening. Thanks for stopping by!
June 5, 2024 at 6:20 am
My pleasure.
June 4, 2024 at 11:04 am
JoAnna, in such grim headlines across the world these good news stories are very welcome. Kudos to Alok Shukla for his incredible work to save one of the largest forests in India – what an achievement and great recognition.
June 4, 2024 at 9:44 pm
Thank you for reading and appreciating the good news, Annika. We need balance. We need people like Alok Shukla.
June 4, 2024 at 11:38 am
A drop in crime is the best news. A great post, as always.
June 5, 2024 at 9:39 pm
Thanks, Bridget. Overall, we’re making progress in some ways.
June 4, 2024 at 11:43 am
I give thanks for foster parent Emma Patterson. What an amazing woman!
June 5, 2024 at 9:40 pm
Yes, she is amazing. It occurs to me that she probably did not start out with the goal to help so many children, but just helped one at a time.
June 6, 2024 at 1:14 pm
You may well be right 🙂
June 4, 2024 at 11:52 am
pray for me
June 5, 2024 at 9:41 pm
Prayers continuing for you dear Melinda. ❤
June 6, 2024 at 11:37 am
I knew I could turn to you. Thanks so much and hugs.
June 6, 2024 at 9:33 pm
❤
June 6, 2024 at 9:33 pm
You are very welcome!
June 4, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I had to laugh at the top statistic… Apologies if I contradict that particular on about my home country England..
People now are not even bothering to report petty crime here in England, because the Police often fail to do anything to investigate it.. They will often not even come around, but give you a crime number over the phone and that is the last you hear of it… So no wonder crime figures look down on paper..
And I have that from a local neighbourhood watch group Cars are being stolen, bikes, cars broken into.. etc… And lots of violent crime still on going ..
I can only say this from reading these incidents first hand on the forum of a local neighbourhood support group.
Knife crime is also up, its not all as the Mainstream pretend it is especially that particular channel …
And wow and Kudos to that foster mother, well done for giving children a home to be raised in with love xx ❤
Thank you JoAnna… for those Good news stories stories, ❤ xxx ❤
June 5, 2024 at 9:49 pm
Thanks for the firsthand account, Sue. Do you think the police are understaffed?
June 6, 2024 at 4:02 am
I don’t really know what it is, JoAnna, except people in England only see police in our towns rarely on the beat.
But they are always flying around with blue lights in cars
Yet when people report a crime such as those I mentioned, and they ring the police, they very often don’t attend petty crime, just giving a crime number
So if violent crime is reduced, what are they flying around in blue lights for..
London had a drive-by shooting into a cafe last week, 3 men and a girl around 11 shot.
Nottingham last week had 3 stabbings in the news. An imagrant went mad with a machete killing and injuring others . Somewhere else.
We never used to hear of such crimes, which I only why I questioned that piece of good news . These are no longer rare incidents..
Thank you you again JoAnna for ALL You share.. we need those good news snippets xxx 😍💗😘🙏
June 6, 2024 at 9:32 pm
Sigh. For some reason, I think of those kinds of killings mostly happening here in the US. Maybe it’s a stereotype I hold of England being Idyllic…. definitely a gap in my awareness. Thanks for sharing these experiences. It’s important to be aware of reality – both the good news and the bad. We humans certainly have a long way to go.
June 7, 2024 at 4:44 am
Yes, we do, JoAnna, but also remember, there are far more good people out there than bad. And it’s only the msm who focus on the bad,which makes it seem overwhelming.
And if the msm instead focused our awareness on the good news stories instead of the negative, they could change the whole of reality in a very short space of time. As people would all then be focusing on the good.
Keep doing what you are doing my friend. You are adding more goodness than you know xx 😘 😍
June 6, 2024 at 1:51 am
Wonderful, as always! No link for the second one, though. 😦
June 6, 2024 at 9:23 pm
Thank you so much for letting me know of that oversight! Here’s the link: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/saving-one-of-the-largest-forests-in-india-from-coal-mining-alok-shukla-wins-2024-goldman-prize/
June 7, 2024 at 1:29 am
That was great! I recently learned from a friend of mine something of the history of environmentalism is India. You might also like this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00895-y#:~:text=Fifty%20years%20ago%20this%20week,of%20India%20and%20the%20world.