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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS 

From Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending December 2024¹ published yesterday and from Homicide in Scotland 2020-2021: statistics², published in October 2021, we can see:

After peaking horribly in 2004/2005, when Scotland and in particular Glasgow, was the ‘Murder Capital of Europe’, homicide has fallen steadily, under Labour and SNP devolved governments, to plateau at around 60 per year from 2012/2013 until, under the SNP, fall again to 49 last year and and an average of 54 over the last 5 years.

Scotland’s media have never reported this trend, preferring to ‘cherry pick’ any one year increases.

In the latest figures we can also see, but unlikely to be reported, Housebreaking down 30%, theft from a motor vehicle down 24%, fire down 4%, vandalism down 13%, drug supply down 6% and drug possession down 32%, in the last 5 years.

Getting back to murder, what’s the clear-up rate?

100%

Source:

1. https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-year-ending-december-2024/documents/
2. https://www.gov.scot/publications/homicide-scotland-2020-2021/pages/4/
3. https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2023/october/homicides-in-scotland-2022-23/

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