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29 Kommentare
> Meanwhile, fewer than one in 100 mobile phone thefts led to a suspect being charged
How many phones are stolen every day? This feels like an even more alarming stat
Yet post a controvisial facebook rant and god damn
I don’t think I’ve ever reported a crime that was resolved by the police. Not found them to be a useful service in my lifetime.
What percentage of those had forensics or footage available? The CPS are oddly picky on things like ‚evidence‘.
It would also be better to see a force by force breakdown- some forces are much better than this, while some are worse.
Unfortunately, given how easy it is for a competent burglar to leave no forensics and hide their identity, it’s not surprising that numbers are this low.
Ring the police about a burglar alarm and be told „it’s a civil matter“.
I bet if the burglar was beat up and hospitalised they would send the A-Team to destroy the home owner
That’s actually a two-fold improvement on the preceding years.
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Just think about how many homes have video doorbells recording any movement on your road. Even with all that „security“ the police cant get a better outcome.
I actually reported a crime about 15+ years ago they solved. Someone broke into my house and stole cash along with a few items.
A neighbour saw the car and gave the license plate to the police. They tracked it down to the guy’s driveway. He had literally driven home and left a car full of stolen goods from multiple houses.
The frustrating part? I knew exactly how much cash was taken, £400, but the police wouldn’t return it to me because I didn’t have a receipt for withdrawing the money.
A friend of mine’s downstairs neighbour was burgled, he came home to a smashed front door and everything ransacked. He called the police and was told to leave everything as it was until forensics came. It took them 4 days to show up, whole time he just had to sit with a visibly destroyed front door and amongst all his broken things. Not sure what the outcome of the investigation was but a pitiful way to treat a victim and the evidence was presumably degraded by the time they got around to it.
The police basically don’t have the resources to pursue anything but the most serious violent crime.
If you get murdered, the police will probably find your killer. If your bicycle gets stolen, the police probably won’t even show up.
Just to play devils advocate. What do people expect the police to do with crimes where it’s incredibly difficult to identify the culprit?
I get the annoyance and there are definitely areas they can do better in and god knows individual cases where they can investigate they don’t . I have a massive issue with those cases. But in reality when there’s little to no evidence what’s the solution?
I’m not immune to this myself. Someone broke into into my shed a few years back. Nothing happened when I raised it with the police. I was pissed but a mate of mine who’s a copper just said „what do you expect us to do when you don’t have any CCTV footage of who did it – we’re not psychic“. And tbh I do get it.
Not really sure how in most cases we expect them to be able to solve it. Burglars will cover faces and wear gloves, so not really leaving behind any evidence. I’m sure in rare instances someone might come forward who knows enough to prove someones guilt, but with these types of crimes thats going to be rare. I don’t find this stat that shocking sadly.
I don’t really believe they solved 8% if I’m being honest. Don’t they just give a crime number and close it?
given the way they handled it the three times I’ve had break ins the surprise is they managed to solve 8%
Are criminals actually still robbing people’s houses in significant numbers.
Looking at crime in terms of risk Vs reward and burglary doesn’t seem worth it. Most consumer electronics are worth literally nothing second hand. Very few people have valuable jewellery.
A quick snatch and grab of someone’s phone is quicker and easier than breaking into someone’s home. Shoplifting is badly monitored by supermarkets etc.
Breaking into someone’s home seems kind of pointless
I’m convinced a lot of crime is now treated as an insurance thing. So if someone steals your card, you report to the police, then give the bank your crime ref, then you get your money back.
There’s so little punishment for anything nowadays unless you post on social media! Ridiculous.
There’s some members of society that aren’t phaised by punishments in the form of a strongly worded letter or having a ‚criminal record‘
My neighbour’s car was stolen from their drive last Wednesday at 4am. Been customised heavily by the owner, real pride and job.
They thieves knew what they were doing, it was targeted, they were able to get in remotely in seconds and various Ring cameras on the street and CCTV didn’t deter them.
I work from home. The police have literally just turned up in the last hour. The neighbour did tell me when they reported it a few hours after it happened they were told they’ll probably never catch those responsible or recover the car.
Failed or didn’t bother trying? I feel like they don’t bother with most crime like this anymore.
Cut some slack, they are too busy policing Twitter…especially those pesky individuals protesting against genocide.
Usually it’s the same person or gang committing multiple burglaries in the area and eventually they get caught and linked to a couple they have committed at best. So they usually do get the perpetrators but they can’t close all the burglaries they have committed even though they eventually end up behind bars
Sisters home got robbed last year, they turned up three days later.. 😂
Blank figures like this mean absolutely nothing without context, people don’t realise that crime recording standards mean unless there’s specific criteria which aren’t met ( additional verifiable information to suggest the crime HASN’T happened, etc) then a crime has to be recorded.
I used to have a neighbour who was a paranoid schizophrenic and would repeatedly report burglaries to his property (well in excess of 40+) where he’d put tape on the doors, have cctv in his house suddenly go off when the burglary happened but there’d be damage somewhere which he claims wasn’t him that the police would crime every single one of those, the police can’t just tell someone that they’re lying in those circumstances and that the neighbour actually damaged it themselves, every one of those crimes will have stood as needing investigating and then being closed after they obviously didn’t find anything.
If the burglar wears gloves, a mask etc and there’s no cctv where their face can clearly be seen, what will forensics find? Nothing
If there’s no evidence to find an offender what more can the police actually do? And even if they do find cctv or something, there’s still a reliance on the offender being known or being identified by someone.
Some of the crimes will absolutely be the police being lazy and not investigating things properly but there’s a hundred factors which stop the crime being resolved, not just the police being useless.
The 8% they did solve were the 8% they investigated, because the victims were millionaires?
They won’t deal with crimes that impact most members of society. Never the resources for burglaries, car thefts or muggings.
But if someone is selling dodgy fire sticks and taking money out of Rupert Murdoch’s pocket then suddenly they have all the will and resources necessary for dawn raids and arrests.
A few years ago, the DVLA booted a car on my street for non payment of tax. That evening, a truck pulled up and a passenger jumped out with an angle grinder, cut off the boot and drove it off.
I called the police, gave a description of the booted car, and the truck and a partial plate. Nothing was ever followed up on.
they’re too busy making sure no ones feelings get hurt online by mean comments, it boosts the case numbers and it basically completes itself. Easy!
I’m genuinely surprised there isn’t even more of a crime epidemic given how lapse policing is these days.
I am pretty sure that is statement is incorrect as they don’t even attempt to solve most burglaries, the problem is primarily one of resources and priorities.
A couple of years ago offices in Soho were hurtled, the police were called, they arrived in 10 minutes, dusted for fingerprints, the guy was arrested a week later, and was in prison less than sox months later.