why the police are ineffective - recent rise in violent crime
Despite large falls in knife crime in the last ten years there has been an increase in crimes that are violent in nature such as murder, assault and robbery. This could mean that the police have been ineffective as they are not doing enough to protect. For example, violent crime has increased by 12% in recent years
why the police are ineffective - unsolved crimes
An important job of the police is to investigate crime, however many ‘low level’ crimes such as minor thefts remain unsolved. Even some murders, such as that of Anthony Ferns remain unsolved suggesting they are somewhat ineffective For example, more than half of Scotland'scar thefts are unsolved
why the police are ineffective - guilty people get away
A key role of the police is to investigate crimes but the fact that many offenders don’t get prosecuted suggests they are not effective. For example, the BBC reported that almost 50% of crimes don’t make it to court
