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