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Re:Violence against women and girls a national emergency, sa... by LeroyRaz on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:39AM (#41047180)
How does one access the a rise in reports? A rise in reports could be bad or good. A) it could be good because the rate of crime is fixed, but more crimes are being reported. B) it could be bad because the rate crime is rising (with the same proportion of crimes being reported). C) it could even be bad because there is an increasing number of false reports.

I am also very intrigued by how one actually estimates rates of things like false reports, unreported crimes, and false convictions. How given that by these categories definitions they are being miscatagorized by the system does any academic or institution estimate these statistics? It seems one would need an independent body to conduct separate investigations to properly estimate any of these

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Re:Violence against women and girls a national emergency, sa... by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:55PM (#41048901)
The report is from the NPCC. Here is another report of theirs on the difference between crime levels and reporting levels:

> A significant contributory factor to the increase in recorded crime is the 30 per cent increase in records of violence without injury, and 37 per cent rise in records of sexual offences. NPCC analysis with police forces suggests that increases are as a result of improved recording practices and greater victim confidence to report and do not indicate a marked rise in offending

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/stats-show-crime-fallin...

A similar situation with hate crimes:

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/increases-in-hate-crime...

Also, the actual source of the current story:

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/call-to-action-as-viole...

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