One person who did make that connection who is a very good friend of mine happens be Asian and has told me what a lot of her family get upto, who hapen to live in Bradford but I shall be open minded :). I do think it does influence though. I think the biggest difference is Bradford on the whole has quite a poor Asian community and perhaps poorer people are more likely to comit fraud?
I am happy to report that my Asian friend and her family would not dream of commiting any type of motor fraud however.
There is just simply a clear link between income levels and crime and Bradford is still a fairly poor city on the whole. Just like if I drove through the rougher parts of Salford and had a bump I would expect them to be 20% chance that the other driver has no insurance.
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Being careful not to cross the red line. It's one of the 'crime's of choice' of a certain community whose numbers in Bradford are huge.
archive.gulfnews.com/world/United_Kingdom/10302724...l
Also shows how DVLA are complicit in fraud when they happily sell your details to any old Kamel, Mohssin and Hamza.
Edited by Hamsafar on 27/05/2009 at 18:43
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Quote (with `White` substituted for `Asian`)
"One person who did make that connection who is a very good friend of mine happens be WHITE and has told me what a lot of her family get upto, who hapen to live in Bradford but I shall be open minded :). I do think it does influence though. I think the biggest difference is Bradford on the whole has quite a poor WHITE community and perhaps poorer people are more likely to comit fraud?
I am happy to report that my WHITE friend and her family would not dream of commiting any type of motor fraud however."
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Inserted capitals are mine - It sounds disturbing when you reverse `Asian` with `White` perhaps - maybe like it does in the original format if you happen to be Asian.
No disrespect to you though Rattle - as I`ve never seen you come up with deliberate subliminally racist stuff. More like you didn`t think it through.
Regards
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Bradford is mentioned as top but it appears to be a growth industry in the whole of West Yorkshire.
"the Ministry of Justice broke up a criminal gang in Keighley which was committing fraud on an industrial scale...Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds were also in the list of 20 hotspots."
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It was a reply to other posts which have seen to be deleted and I did sort of make that point by mentionining Salford which is a mostly white area. I don't know about the exact stats as the last census was back in 2001 but I think you will find it still is a mostly Asian city.
It is not the fact they are Asian they are commiting fraud it is simply because when you have large groups of ehtnic minorities the area tends to be poorer (although this demographic is happily changing).
I was actually tying to stick up for the Asians but it is very hard to do on the internet without it sounding wrong and racist.
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I was born and bred in Manningham, Bradford. I have gradually moved NW for the past 35 years, as have all my Bradfordian friends. I still visit the Imax and Pictureville cinemas...highly rated by Lord Puttnam and rightly so. Almost always on the train from Bingley, after a few first hand experiences of car crime.
It was a wonderful city in my schooldays.
Not quite so nice now.
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Yeah one of my friends (white) went to university there breifly but left because the high amounts of crime. He went to Salford instead and strangely found it a lot more crime free. This shocked me as my experience of Salford is that it was quite rough (although again this has improved a lot lately). Still his car has been broken into three times in the last year and he drives a 16 year old Nissan Micra 1.0 :(.
Of course there are still many decent hard working people in Braford but it only takes a few Rufians to make the place seem like a gheto. I often get annoyed when people go on about crime levels in Moss Side for example as I know from experience its over hyped.
The problem with this thread is we either have a sensible discussion about the demographics of Bradford and questioning why it might be or close it as the thread may well turn political.
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Rattle, I think the tacit accusation of racism on your part is COMPLETELY unjustified. It is a simple fact that crime is disproportionately higher in Bradford than comparable cities and it would not be entirely unwise to draw one or two conclusions from that, in view of the proportion of resident foreign nationals who reside in the nick.
If anyone thinks I'm a racist, then do let me know.and I'll turn myself in.
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Totally agree, Bradford was a great place when I was a youth in the 50's, Manningham Park was a great place for a day out. was once a leading light in looking after workers at Saltaire.
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