[Grammar] Clause boundaries/ division

[Punkchickengirl]

Hi all,

I hope somebody might guide me a little bit with the below. I think I'm doing well with figuring out clause division, then I look at what I've done and feel ignorant, panic and wonder whether it's all wrong.

Lines 12 -18 I'm having particular worries about, and I hope someone might help illuminate where the boundaries might better go and why?

Thank you for reading!

punkchicken

1. ||MUGGINGS have shot up by 6% over the last year despite a general fall in

1. crime.||

1. ||Robberies were also up by 2% and cases of domestic violence by 6%|| as the

1. recession continued to take its toll[ among women forced to stay in abusive

1. relationships.] ||

1. ||Javed Khan, of Victim Support, said|| crime was still “a real problem for a lot of

1. people”. || He said: || “Many victims still need help to cope after a crime.” ||

1. ||Shadow Police Minister David Hanson added: || “Cutting 15,000 police officers

1. shows|| the Government are not doing everything they can.” ||

1. ||Overall crime fell by 6%, with murder cases down 14% and attempted murder

1. by 12%||, according to the Office for National Statistics. ||

1. ||The Government said|| the figures showed || people had “the lowest chance of being

1. a victim” in more than 30 years. ||

1. Crime Prevention Minister Jeremy Browne said|| it proved || that “how the police

1. are deployed, rather than their numbers, is the key to cutting crime”. ||

1. ||Deputy Chief Constable Douglas Paxton, of the Association of Chief Police

1. Officers, praised officers on the beat “for the overall crime reductions || at a time

when forces were facing significant cash savings”. ||

 

[Rover_KE]

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Please state the source of your quoted text.

Please use the Edit Post feature to renumber your sentences so they're not all number 1, then click Save.

What does || mean? It's not a standard punctuation mark.