Donald Trump's attempt to link UK crime stats to terrorism just wrong
Donald Trump  posted a tweet linking an increase in UK crime to "Islamic terror."
UK authorities have been very hesitant to engage with  Trump 's analysis.
In his daily morning tweetstorm   President Donald Trump  made the relatively unusual decision to go beyond the domestic news agenda and comment on the affairs of the United Kingdom.
As with much that  Trump  says   he  makes no concrete claims  but the implication is clear:  He  thinks that Islamic terrorism is the primary driver of this increase in crime.
The UK government and its statisticians were not keen to engage with  Trump 's take on the latest crime statistics  presumably for diplomatic reasons.
But when pressed by Business Insider on whether their analysis tallies at all with  Trump 's  a spokesman said: "I'm not aware of any comments to that effect."
 Trump  would have been wiser to highlight Home Office figures released earlier this year  showing a record number of terror-related arrests.  It  also showed that 90% of detainees have what  it  called "Islamist extremist views."
But to misdiagnose the problem so badly  as  Trump  has done this morning  does nothing to help victims of crime  or to make the world a safer place. In all likelihood  it will instead do the exact opposite.
[TGT] posted a tweet linking an increase in UK crime to "Islamic terror."
UK authorities have been very hesitant to engage with  Trump 's analysis.
In  [TGT]  daily morning tweetstorm    [TGT] made the relatively unusual decision to go beyond the domestic news agenda and comment on the affairs of the United Kingdom.
As with much that   [TGT] says    [TGT]   makes no concrete claims  but the implication is clear:   [TGT]   thinks that Islamic terrorism is the primary driver of this increase in crime.
The UK government and its statisticians were not keen to engage with   [TGT]  's take on the latest crime statistics  presumably for diplomatic reasons.
But when pressed by Business Insider on whether their analysis tallies at all with   [TGT]  's  a spokesman said: "I'm not aware of any comments to that effect."
  [TGT] would have been wiser to highlight Home Office figures released earlier this year  showing a record number of terror-related arrests.  It  also showed that 90% of detainees have what  it  called "Islamist extremist views."
But to misdiagnose the problem so badly  as  Trump  has done this morning  does nothing to help victims of crime  or to make the world a safer place. In all likelihood  it will instead do the exact opposite.