Liverpool City Council has begun delivering copies of its new Community Charter to homes in the city.
There are different versions of the 16 page charter covering different areas of the city, each setting measurable standards for council services such as street cleaning, recycling, housing allocation and community safety. Areas are made up of three neighbouring wards which are profiled in a page of tables giving figures for total population, ethnic minority population and community safety (crime rates). In the 'Three Parks Area' for example, there is the following:
Ethnic minority population as a % of total population
Princes Park 37.7%
Greenbank 16.7%
St Michaels 12.6%
Community Safety (per 1000)
Princes Park 171.9
Greenbank 118.3
St Michaels 113.8
The problem with this kind of simplistic presentation is that it doesn't quite give the whole story. While the figures imply 'ethnic minority = higher crime' it is worth pointing out that Granby (in the centre of Princes Park) has an unemployment rate over twice that of anywhere else in Liverpool. This gives a new equation: unemployment = higher crime rate.
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* Liverpool average unemployment 5.1%
* Granby 12.4%
(the next highest rate is below 9%)
Liverpool Strategic Employment Bulletin August 2004
http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/PMD%20162%20%20-%20PSA%20Bulletin%20August%202004_tcm21-23373.pdf
Ethnic minority population as a % of total population
Princes Park 37.7%
Greenbank 16.7%
St Michaels 12.6%
Community Safety (per 1000)
Princes Park 171.9
Greenbank 118.3
St Michaels 113.8
The problem with this kind of simplistic presentation is that it doesn't quite give the whole story. While the figures imply 'ethnic minority = higher crime' it is worth pointing out that Granby (in the centre of Princes Park) has an unemployment rate over twice that of anywhere else in Liverpool. This gives a new equation: unemployment = higher crime rate.
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* Liverpool average unemployment 5.1%
* Granby 12.4%
(the next highest rate is below 9%)
Liverpool Strategic Employment Bulletin August 2004
http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/PMD%20162%20%20-%20PSA%20Bulletin%20August%202004_tcm21-23373.pdf
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Wavertree
15.01.2005 12:34
Ethnic minorities (how is this defined I wonder)
Childwall 6.0%
Church 9.5%
Wavertree 9.2%
Liverpool 8.1%
Childwall and Church appear safer than Liverpool as a whole, but the crime figures for Wavertree are missing! I assume this is incompetence rather than conspiracy.
All crime:
Childwall 73.1
Church 99.3
Wavertree ?
Liverpool 168.2
I don't think this tells us anything which we don't already know.
me
It's an SLA
16.01.2005 21:51
We now need to make sure that it is kept to by the Council, and to all play our part in making this great city an even better place to live, work and visit in time for the Capital of Culture in 2008.
The Community Charter is a great initiative which will be supported by everyone in Liverpool.
Mikie