A few years ago the tabloid newspapers were constantly running stories about a crime wave sweeping the country and on the odd occasion reported a milk bottle theft etc etc So an investigative journalist wanted to find out how bad things had really got, he went to several places and was struck by the example of a village in Somerset a local pensioner when interviewed said that she was terrified and would only leave home for a very brief period for a small shop in daylight and she had a few apocryphal hair raising tales to tell (think HOL). So being an investigative journalist he attended the local Police station for some verification, apparently in the last decade the ONLY crime in the area was an elderly farm worker failing to put his lamp on whilst cycling his bike. This does put the scaremongering far right " Reform " adherents and the fictional tabloid stories into focus as fairy stories for adults.