Blog posts

Author

Matt Ashby

Chart: Largest real police pay rise in 20 years, but effects of previous cuts linger

What happened to policing between 2010 and 2024?

Rates of most common crimes have dropped since 2010

Worry about many types of ASB is at its lowest level for 20 years

Locator maps for Met Police BCUs

Chart: Government proposals would mean pay for new police officers will have fallen by a quarter in 13 years

Most police forces are still handling higher crime-related demand

Adjusting for population change, the number of police officers in England and Wales now is less than in 31 of the past 40 years

Chart: Cuts to officer numbers still being felt in some forces

Chart: Over 13 years, basic police pay has fallen by 22% in real terms

Increases in crime-related demand are hitting some forces harder than others

Chart: Police cuts still being felt in most forces

Chart: Typical rape investigation times doubled between 2012 and 2018

Tutorial: How to stop hiding your research

Why you can’t identify changes in crime by comparing this month to last month

Chart: In serious cases, justice is often slow

Chart: Some police forces are much more likely to prosecute violence

Chart: No big changes in sentences after new police-assaults law

Chart: England & Wales has highest per-capita prison population in Western Europe

Chart: 73% of victim-based crime is not reported to police

Chart: Homicides haven’t only increased in Britain

Chart: Police crackdowns catch few drink drivers

Chart: 10 times more people die in police collisions than in shootings

Chart: What offences are people most often prosecuted for?

Chart: One in ten of us is on the National DNA Database

Chart: More than 1,400 football arrests each season

Chart: Seizures of the most harmful drugs at UK borders are falling

Chart: When police use force, they rarely cause injury

Chart: Most prison sentences are for violent crimes

Chart: Young offenders are more likely to re-offend than adults

Chart: Sentences for knife carrying are increasing, but not for teens

Chart: Much of the homicide drop has already been erased

Chart: Police are arresting half as many people as a decade ago

Chart: Online crime now the most-likely threat to many businesses

Chart: Most people think the justice system is fair, fewer say it’s effective

Chart: Drug use was falling, but that seems to be changing

Chart: Over 10 years, basic police pay has fallen by 22% in real terms

Chart: Homicide methods are changing

Chart: For most offences prison is the exception, not the rule

Tutorial: Cleaning UK Office for National Statistics data in R

Chart: Almost 7 million adults have been victims of partner abuse

Chart: Police cuts haven’t hit everywhere equally