I write this letter after being shown an article, which was headlined: “Revealed: Town’s crime hotspots” (Gazette, February 3), and was illustrated by a picture of the turning where I live on the Greenstead estate, in Colchester.

The actual close is, quite honestly, the neatest and most trouble-free on the estate.

I cannot understand for what reason the photograph was taken of this particular part of the estate.

It is very upsetting, as all of us in this close take care of our properties and are responsible and law-abiding individuals.

Such publicity just draws attention to the estate overall and bad-mouths it without the correctly-gathered facts.

It appears the information has been collated over several years, and that information should show the enormous drop in crime in this area, and indeed the entire estate.

I am surprised people are dealing with the exposure of crime in a way that does not show the positive side of the work that has been done on the estate by Julie Young and her team.

When I first moved here five years ago, the area on the adjoining road to us was noisy and very troublesome.

This has now changed and there has been a complete turn-around.

Let’s please deal with the positive side rather than what was as if it still is.

The facts do not always speak for themselves. In other words, we can make them read what we want them to.

Freda Casagrande
Larch Close
Colchester