As BBC UK worries about it in England, anti-social behaviour in Scotland plummets to half what it was under Scottish Labour in 2007

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BBC UK is worrying about anti-social behaviour in England today. BBC Scotland have not followed their lead.

Perhaps this is why:

From Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2024-25 published in June 2025, we see massive reductions in all forms of anti-social behaviour, an overall halving and major reductions in every type.

In 2007, while classification differed then, the figure was around 94 000, TWICE that today.

Sources:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2024-25/documents/ https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2016-17/pages/11/ https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2014-15/

What might be contributing to this?

Crime and police staffing in Scotland – Factcheck finds more officers than under Labour and only half the crime!

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