Violence against a person accounted for a majority of crime in the city, with theft offences as the second highest reason from crime. The total number of violent crime increased by twenty percent over the last year
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00:00The most dangerous towns and cities in the southwest have been revealed in a new study.
00:08The study has stated that a total of 399,816 offences were committed in the southwest last year.
00:20Shoplifting offences increased by 23% compared to 2023.
00:25According to the study, a total number of 399,816 offences were committed in the southwest during 2024.
00:3955.1% of these were violent crime offences.
00:44The southwest has a crime rate of 69.4%, one per thousand people.
00:50Shoplifting offences by 23% compared to 2023, while sexual offences and stalking and harassment offences also went up.
01:03But according to these statistics, there are cities within the southwest that are regarded the worst for crime.
01:11Burnham-on-Sea came in second highest with a crime rate of 1,037.3% per 1,000 people.
01:19And the city of Bristol is the sixth highest for crime in the southwest, with a rate of 119.6% per 1,000 people.
01:30Violence against a person accounted for a majority of crime in the city, with theft offences as the second highest reason from crime.
01:38The total number of violent crime increased by 20% over the last year.
01:43The total number of Eastern