After the fact

This is just a guess at this stage but it looks like the police tidying up exercise is going rather well:

A man is being questioned in connection with the murder of a City financier who was stabbed to death in his own home.

It is a great comfort to the rest of us to know that in times like these (that is after the fact) we can rely on such a great service.

Protection rates

In this very recent exchange between Blair and Howard on crime rates our politicians fight over rates of offence and detection rates. One thing they will never discuss, because it probably isn't even on their radar, is protection rates. How many successful instances of protection by the police of members of the public were there last year, the year before, this year? These should only include protection during a violent crime in progress and should be expressed not only as a count of successful protection events but also as a percentage of the total number of violent crimes in the same time period.

Posted by John at December 1, 2004 11:25 AM | TrackBack