Criminal Justice
Crime down by 5%
Crime figures for 2019 show an overall drop in crime. Total theft is down 9% but knife crimes were up 7%.
28th April 2020
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Crime figures for 2019 show an overall drop in crime. Total theft is down 9% but knife crimes were up 7%.
Knife crime shows a further 7% increase with a big increase (17%) in the West Midlands
Knife crime shows a further 7% increase with hot-spots in London, West Midlands, West Yorkshire & Greater Manchester.
Latest crime stats show a 14% increase in homicides.
The latest statistics reveal a complex picture with overall crime flat but concerns about a jump in homicides and increase in serious violent offences.
Latest crime figures show crime overall stable but significant rises in burglaries, robberies, violent offences and vehicle thefts.
The latest (Jan 18) figures reveal a complex picture with crime overall falling but concerns about serious violent offences and an upturn in car thefts.
Latest crime figures show increasing conflict between different data sources but a worrying 8% annual rise in the number of homicides.
There was a 7% increase in police recorded crime compared with the previous year, with 4.4 million offences recorded in the year ending December 2015. Most of this rise is thought to be owing to improved crime recording by the police leading to a greater proportion of reports of crime being recorded in the last year.
The heart of the problem is that the criminal justice system is not transparent. The public do not have a clear view of what is being delivered and the different agencies that make up the CJS do not understand what is happening and are not under pressure to improve.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) found that crime in the year ending September 2014 was 11% down on the previous year and the lowest estimate since the CSEW began in 1981. There was an estimated 7 million incidents of crime against households and resident adults in England and Wales.
