In the Guardian today:
Victims are being “let down time and time again” by police, a minister has said, as almost every violent or sexual offence went unsolved in hundreds of Britain’s crime hotspots last year. Nearly 1.9m violent or sexual crimes in England and Wales were closed without a suspect being caught or charged in the year to June 2024 – about 89% of all offences given an outcome, official figures show.
In the ‘Scottish’ Daily Express on 23 October 2024:
Police only solve half of all crimes in SNP’s soft-touch justice Scotland – Police officers in Scotland are solving less crimes than a decade ago with the Scottish Government’s approach to criminal justice blamed by the Scottish Tories. The percentage of non-sexual crimes of violence solved dropped in the last decade from 77% to 68% and for sex crimes it fell by almost 20% from 76.5% to 57.2%. Within this category, only 52.9% of rapes and attempted rapes were solved in 2023-24, down from 74.2% 10 years ago.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/police-only-solve-half-crimes-33951541
So, in England and Wales, only 11%, 1 in 10, violent and sexual crimes solved but in Scotland, 32% violent crimes, 3 in 10 and 47%, rapes and attempted rapes, 5 in 10.
I know, I’m comparing all sexual crimes in England and Wales with only rapes and attempted rapes in Scotland but I feel sure the latter are even more difficult to close, thus making the comparison favour England and Wales.
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