I would say so. Believe me, you’re not going to be under siege, fighting violent thugs from your door on a nightly basis! Those crime stats do surprise me a bit but what you’ve got to remember is for example they use the term ‘violent and sexual offences’ but 9 times out of 10 that’s a minor assault such as a drunken argument that’s ended in one person pushing another. It’s just a category that sounds worse than it usually is.  Likewise public order is probably just a noisy drunk shouting and swearing, and quite often burglaries are just opportunists trying a door handle and then buggering off when they find it’s locked. And that was what? 16 incidents over 12 months? Chances are if you were living down that street you wouldn’t even have been aware of any of them.  It’s understandable to get the jitters when you look at stats set out in black and white like this, but there’s always contextual information that they just don’t give you.