This was a shameful abuse of statistics by STV yesterday:
Nearly 70% of Police Scotland officers currently suspended while under criminal investigation are accused of offences relating to violence against women, according to figures obtained by STV News. The allegations include domestic abuse, sexual offences and stalking. The figures show that, out of 53 suspended officers facing criminal investigation, 26 officers are accused of domestic abuse-related offences, nine are accused of sexual offences and two are accused of stalking.
There are currently 16 402 FTE police officers in Scotland, 11 036 male. 26 of them, 0.2% are suspended facing investigation for domestic abuse.
What percentage of the Scottish adult male population in Scotland is charged with a domestic abuse crime?
34 586 charges in an adult male population of 2.17 million last year, is 1.4%, 7 times as many.
The average adult Scottish male is 7 times as likely to commit a domestic abuse offence as the average Scottish police officer. Still not good enough but better than 70% being abusers in the STV header?
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Utterly disgusting and how that is bound to affect attitudes towards the police.
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Shameful attempt to invent a headline. Just when you thought nothing could reach the depths of BBC Scotland, STV comes up with this nonsense.
Stephen McKenzie
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I love these wee lessons on the misuse of statistics – something most readers let slide under the radar, me for instance.
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It’s the personal quality that caused a critic to suggest you’d not want to get stuck in a lift with me. I said that’s how I got my wife pregnant. Are you sure you want to go ahead.
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Investigated doesn’t mean they are guilty . The percentage amongst the general public won’t be less. Of course Police behaviour should be exemplary, in reality they are humans. Not perfect but expected to be by people who aren’t either most of the time.
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