From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report June 2026 released today, the above chart and: There were 45 homicide victims recorded by the police in Scotland in 2024-25, a 21% decrease from 2023-24 and a 24% decrease from 2015-16. https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-june-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/ That’s 0.81 per 100 000 people. How does it compare? In England and Wales the ratio was 0.95 but that’s a bigger difference than it looks. It’s 17.3% higher and if the rates were similar, based on population, they’d have around 11 times as many or 500 but an extra 22 died last year.1Also the trend there is … Continue reading In the whole world only Norway has a murder rate just lower than Scotland after 19 years of evidence-based and joined up policy initiatives back by funding from a government that listens to professional and academic opinion