Sometimes it takes a stranger to see things clearly and in this case, BBC Scotland’s masterpiece of Scottish cringe, last night.
Her impressions are unbiased and spot-on.
Why?
This:
From Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2025-26 published 23 June 2026, this table:
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2025-26/pages/total-recorded-crime/
One year variations are often unreliable indicators of trends but comparing the averages of three to five year groups is less so. You can see above that comparing the average rate of crimes per 10 000 population in 2015-2018 with those in the most recent three years reveals that in almost all of the categories of crime claimed by the Scottish Cons in the Express, above, to be increasing are in decline and as rates per 10 000, becoming rare.
So, in Glasgow, the kinds of crime being reported anecdotally by the Cons, BBC Scotland and the Express, are objectively, statistically, in decline but we don’t have a breakdown by age for these statistics.
So, from national data on youth offending and violence in Glasgow, Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) data tracks referrals on offence grounds, primarily for children under 16–18 in the Children’s Hearings System):
In 2024/25, 2,447 children (aged 12–17) were referred on offence grounds, involving 1,978 alleged violent offences. This was down 9.4% in children referred and 9.3% in alleged offences from 2023/24. https://www.scra.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Full-statistical-analysis-2024-25.pdf
Non-sexual crimes of violence (a key category including assaults) accounted for 3,302 alleged offences in 2024/25. This was down 14.5% from 3,862 in the year before. Other categories like damage/reckless behaviour and antisocial offences also fell sharply. https://www.scra.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Full-statistical-analysis-2024-25.pdf
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