To what extent can an individual organisation or service be directly responsible for improving outcomes for hundreds of thousands of residents?
It's an interesting question. And one that's been on my mind since a crime report named Southend as the safest town in England and Wales.
The recently published research, Urban Crime Rankings, carried out by centre-right think-tank Reform took an American approach to examining data for burglary, murder, robbery, rape, car and gun crime to calculate a crime rate according to population size.
And at 30.9 selected crimes per 1,000 of the population, Southend's crime rate was found to be the lowest of all the towns and cities looked at by researchers.
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