Burglary, drugs, arson and possession of weapons - just some of 1,000-plus crimes committed in one UK city centre over a month.
The heart of Birmingham is the scene of a staggering number of offences, equivalent to more than 30 every day.
There were 1,094 crimes reported in the city's iconic New Street and its surrounding areas in September last year, the most recent month for which figures are available.
This equates to 36 crimes very single day, making it the city's main crime hotspot.
One Birmingham Live reporter documented an hour of life in one of the city centre's main shopping areas, New Street.
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7.27am
Two Retail Business Improvement District (BID) patrol officers walking down New Street start running down towards the Britannia Hotel , close to the Corporation Street end of New Street.
The two officers in hi-vis bend down to attend to a man lying motionless on the floor while several men are stood behind them.
To distant bystanders, it appears the officers could be dealing with a fatality outside a shuttered shop called the Sunny Market.
City workers walk past on their way to wherever as if this was like any other normal day on New Street.
The Retail BID officers, wearing blue gloves, keep trying to assist the man.
A litter picker in orange hi-vis carries on with his job collecting litter from the scene - just inches from the man's feet as if nothing is happening.
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7.35am
The two Retail BID officers have managed to get some kind of response from the man they are trying to help.
Once conscious, he has a big voice which booms around New Street as he swears and shouts "you are evil".
There is no sign of any other support services and the man tries to get to his feet.
Like most of us ordinary folks, untrained to deal with the harshest barbs of modern life, bystanders are helpless.
7.50am
An ambulance arrives with its blue lights flashing but has to park 200 yards away outside the Burlington Hotel because it can't get through the anti-terror security barriers.
Two paramedics walk towards the man on the floor.
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7.54am
Eventually, two police officers arrive from the High Street direction.
A decision is made to walk the man all the way back towards the ambulance.
The man is helped to get inside the back of the ambulance at the bottom of Cannon Street.
One of the Retail BID officers recognises a man he knows.
"I love being out early and helping people," he says with an air of kind-hearted satisfaction tempered with frustration.
What they don't know, as they head into a secret door inside the Bullring is that another situation is about to kick off in New Street...
8.10am
Just yards from the original Sunny Market scene, two younger men are starting an argument over a coat in the doorway next to Clarks shoe shop.
They trade a couple of blows and start dancing around.
They egg each other on, four yards apart, before chasing each other.
The coat is left behind on the floor as the men run along New Street towards the Britannia Hotel.
One picks up a broom stick ready to attack the other man.
He then picks up a short set of step ladders with which to defend himself and ends up throwing the ladders.
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Just as they are engaging in battle, the owner of the equipment shouts at them and, thankfully, they disperse.
All the while, other people are just walking along New Street carrying on with their normal business, heads to the floor and powerless in the face of such unruly behaviour.
One man who had witnessed both scenes tells me: "The (authorities) are losing control of the city - nobody cares, nobody does anything.
"This has been happening for five years and it's just getting worse."
8.23am
A police van turns off Temple Row to head down Cherry Street.
It then turns right into Cannon Street to head towards the ambulance which is still on New Street 35 minutes after arriving.
With the first two officers now in the Bullring, two new officers get out of the police van to check on the paramedics and patient inside the ambulance.
Having caused a road block on Cannon Street, the police van moves on to New Street.
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The ambulance then leaves the scene entirely, occasionally giving a short burst of its siren en route to Bennetts Hill as workers on foot stream into the city from New Street Railway station.
A minute later, the police van leaves and is driven up Bennetts Hill too.
But not before passing two more policemen trying to keep the city safe.
They are armed response officers sitting quietly - and expensively - in an unmarked car outside of coffee shop Pret a Manger.
