More police to patrol on full moons

This is interesting. The anecdotal evidence in support of a link between crazyness and the full moon has been often denied.

In this case however, a UK police official took another look at his statistics…and surprise, surprise…there IS a correlation.

Inspector Andy Parr, of Sussex Police, made the connection while analysing crime statistics for the Brighton and Hove area’s “night-time economy”. He said: “I thought ‘We have a limited amount of men and money to spend, so let’s look at the crime figures’.
I compared a graph of full moons and a graph of last year’s violent crimes and there is a trend. People tend to be more aggressive generally.”

Interesting.

Some modern studies have suggested a link between the lunar cycle and criminality and health. Nine years ago a three-month psychological study of 1,200 inmates at Armley jail in Leeds showed a rise in violent incident in the days either side of a full moon. Ins Parr hopes his findings could lead to further university research which would be of use to police forces.