Professor John Robertson OBA
STV today has:
Glasgow City is in the midst of a “deepening crisis” around women’s safety, statistics show. Instances of domestic abuse are up by 41% on the previous year, rapes increased by 41%, and sexual assault has risen by 28%, according to figures from the Safe Glasgow Partnership.
Glasgow Labour deputy leader Bailie Soryia Siddique said that women and girls in Glasgow are “being let down” after the latest “shocking” statistics. The Safe Glasgow Partnership data shows 357 rape crimes were recorded during 2024-25 compared to 254 during the previous year. Domestic abuse crimes against women stand at 192 so far compared to 136 the previous year.
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/shocking-rise-in-rapes-and-violent-attacks-against-women-in-glasgow
I don’t for a moment wish to diminish the importance of dealing with these crimes against, in the main, women, but these statistics are offered with no explanation of their reliability and official statistics are not offered for context.
The official statistics for rape, for Glasgow, do show a large increase in 2023/2024, to 373 from 309 the previous year but prior to the dip during the pandemic, in 2017/2018, the level was actually higher at 386. There is no increasing trend here but a yearly fluctuation.
Sexual assault figures, contrary to the STV picture, suggest a fall in the last three years and a major fall from 791 cases in 2017/2018 to 655 last year. There is actually a trend here, over ten years, and it’s down.
Domestic abuse cases have climbed in the last three years but this may, in part, reflect a greater willingness and confidence to come forward, than in the past.
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2023-24/documents/
Finally, no doubt I’ll get stick for this but, context helps you make sense of your situation, so:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
STV WOULD KNOW ALLTHE PERVERTS
they subsidise Them Regulary
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CLOSEDOWN THIS FITHY ROTTEN FRANCHISE
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Letting agencies illegally charge people 6 months upfront rent + deposit. Even people with good credit and financial means. Making more people homeless.
Abused women do not get legal aid. Women who co habit have less rights. Abused women have to stay in unsafe places. If they got legal aid they could get away. They have to put in a claim. (1/3) It can take years and cost £thousands. Legal aid has to be paid back in any case. Abusers know this and continue the abuse. It would be less costly giving legal aid. So women could keep a roof over their heads.
Abused women, elsewhere, get legal aid and can keep a roof over their head.
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