Crime
Crime rates in East Grinstead are lower than the national average.
| Offence | Locally | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Robbery | 0.32 | 1.85 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1.79 | 4.04 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle | 5.34 | 9.59 |
| Sexual offences | 0.62 | 1.17 |
| Violence against a person | 11.28 | 19.97 |
| Burglary | 2.58 | 5.67 |
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“A bad end, a sad end, was the last end of Mieze. And why, why, why? What crime had she committed? She came from Bernau into the whirl of Berlin, she was not an innocent girl, certainly not, but her love for him was pure and steadfast; he was her man and she took care of him like a child. She was struck down because she happened by chance to encounter this man; such is life, it’s really inconceivable.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)