'Enough is enough': New campaign to tackle silent but violent crime epidemic

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National World Editor-in-Chief Nancy Fielder shares her experience of a family member being a recent victim of unsolved crime and launches National World's Silent Crime Campaign.

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00:00So my mom who is almost 80 and walking with crutches because she's just had a knee operation

00:06was taking a dog to her local park where she goes most days and on a

00:11Sunday lunchtime

00:13Peak time for lots of people to be in the park and there were lots of people in the park

00:17But she went around one corner where there wasn't anybody else and a man walked up behind her, held a very large kitchen knife

00:24Pointed at her chest and took a bag off her arm

00:28Clearly the most vulnerable person in the park and he was gone

00:33Within seconds. It's had a huge impact on my mom

00:37She was absolutely terrified as you'd imagine, but it also had a real impact on the neighborhood

00:43I think people are just horrified that this could happen here in this place that my mom and everybody else

00:48thought was safe, so we are

00:52Trying to raise the profile of not just that kind of crime

00:57But we are working across the national world across all the cities in the country

01:02And in Scotland and Northern Ireland to say that enough is enough. We want to talk about silent crime now

01:09It's not silent in that it's not bad crime

01:12It's silent because the victims don't have a voice

01:15Six out of ten of these victims don't even report their crime to the police and then even the ones that are properly processed

01:22the vast majority don't end up with any kind of conviction and

01:27The more people I talk to about what's happened to my mom and my family the more people

01:33Say that's horrific. Is she okay? You're never going to believe what happened to me and there is a sheer

01:39huge number a massive epidemic of crimes that

01:44are silently creeping in making us feel unsafe really impacting on individuals lives and

01:50Nothing's been done about and that we're not even really reporting the majority of them

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