Skeptics and those determined to deny the SNP Government any credit have looked at the plummeting graph of crimes reported by the police in Scotland and responded with suggestions that the fall is due to a reduced police presence or fakery by the statisticians. Crime figures based only on police reporting do understate the actual level of crime and so we need to find out what people will report to independent researchers about their own experience of crime in their communities. The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) is based on 5 600 face-to-face interviews. This is a very large … Continue reading Confirmed – police reporting AND public opinion both reveal massive fall in crime since SNP came to power