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Looks like Britain is still hiding their crime rate by having their officers simply not report them accurately....
A million crimes reported by public left out of police figures - Telegraph
So that is how they do it....makes you wonder what their true crime rate is and if they would be able to keep complaining about guns in the U.S. if they actually had to report all of their violent crime against innocent....disarmed....citizens in their own country....
A million crimes reported by public left out of police figures - Telegraph
Almost a million crimes a year are disappearing from official figures as chief constables attempt to meet targets, a study by the police watchdog has disclosed.
Its report exposed “indefensible” failures by forces to record crime accurately, and said that in some areas up to a third of crimes are being struck out of official records.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary said violent crimes and sex attacks were particularly vulnerable to being deleted under “inexcusably poor” systems.
Although the report stopped short of accusing police of widespread “fiddling” it said there was an “undercurrent of pressure not to record a crime across some forces” and “wrongful pressure” by managers.
So that is how they do it....makes you wonder what their true crime rate is and if they would be able to keep complaining about guns in the U.S. if they actually had to report all of their violent crime against innocent....disarmed....citizens in their own country....
t means violent criminals and even rapists are not investigated, potentially allowing offenders to strike again.
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In all, the report estimated 800,000 crimes reported by the public every year are wiped out of official figures.
Overall, almost a fifth of crimes failed to appear in the figures for England and Wales, the inspectorate concluded, but in some forces the proportion was as high as a third. Overall, police failed to record a quarter of rapes and a third of violent crimes across England and Wales.
About one in five “no crimes” was unjustified, including more than 200 rapes and 250 violent assaults that were deleted from the official figures. The inquiry, commissioned by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, involved inspectors listening in to 8,000 calls to police by the public. Inspectors made their own decisions about what should be recorded as a crime and what should not, according to strict rules set out by the Home Office.
They then compared their conclusions with what was actually recorded by police in relation to the 8,000 calls and found far too few crimes were being logged in the official figures. The overall official figures for the period covered showed 3.7 million offences.
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