article_snippet.sent: The Newsnight presenter then moved on to crime; quoting shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper who said earlier this Parliament that the cuts are 'risking public safety and the fight against crime'.
article_snippet.sent: When asked what had happened to crime, Ed Miliband at first answered: 'Violent crime's actually up.
article_snippet.sent: So there are worries about violent crime.
article_snippet.sent: And there are big questions about what's going to happen to policing in the next Parliament.'
article_snippet.sent: Evan Davis then asked Evan Davis twice: 'What's happened to crime overall?', forcing Ed Miliband to reply: 'You're definitely right that there are a number of statistics that the Government cites to say everything's fine in the country and everything's doing well.
article_snippet.sent: Certain areas of crime have gone down; certain areas of crime have gone up.
article_snippet.sent: The presenter interrupted The shadow business secretary again to point out that the crime survey of England and Wales showed it was at Wales lowest level since 1981.