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Do you find it paranoid to always use a seat belt?
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Nope.
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one out of every four people will be in a car accident in their lifetime. Your chances of dieing in a car accident are 1 out of every 140 people.
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_t...a_car_accident
Car accidents annual deaths 44,757 lifetime risk 1 in 84
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/1...-should-we-be/
I do find it paranoid to expect personal attacks in the tourist areas of major European cities.
Deaf Smith, this is from your first link.
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The officers, a detective inspector, a detective sergeant and three detective constables, are accused of persuading suspects to confess to offenses they had not committed in order to improve the unit's performance statistics.
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The article doesn't support your contention.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/u...cle3600485.ece
Your second link references the third.
http://www.dailyunconstitutional.com...owering-crime/
The third link is the meat of your position as I understand it.
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An estimated 1.4m crimes are going unrecorded by the police every year partly because officers bend the rules to exaggerate their success, government inspectors have discovered.
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That would according to the article increase total crime to 6.7m from 5.3.
But it gets murky when we ask what the article considers to be crimes.
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The Home Office's statistics directorate wants to tighten up the police recording procedures and publish two sets of figures, one for crimes where there is evidence of illegality, and another for all allegations of an offence.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...es-710742.html
Doesn't that indicate that some of those 1.4m crimes are reports of crimes with no evidence of illegality?
Does it also indicate that some reported crimes are allegations rather than actual crimes?
Would that mean that British crime statistics are in some ways lower, because they include instances where there is no evidence of illegality?