Five million crimes and no-one punished

[AB Asks]

It has been revealed that only one in eight crimes resulted in a criminal charge being made or the culprit brought before the courts. 73% of all the crimes the offender was not even caught. Culprits instead received on the spot fines or cautions. What does this say to criminals � that they can get away with whatever they want? Or is this representative of all the silly things people get punished for � for example being drunk in the street? What do you think?

[Gromit]

Is there a good reason why AB Ed is unable to supply a link to her questions. Sigh, here is yet another from the daily mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=482928&in_page_i d=1770

Quite a while been posting these two Daily Mail stories AB Ed, what's the matter, your lips can't move as fast fast as you can read?

[WaldoMcFroog]

You failed to mention that there was actually a 2% increase in the number of crimes dealt with by the judiciary, and frankly, idle speculation on whether it's representative of all the silly things people get punished for is a bit daft when the Home Office has produced a big lovely pdf full of statistics for us to argue about:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0607.h tml

[Gromit]

Should be

"Quite a while between...

[jake-the-peg]

Come on Ed - give the Telegraph a shot - they're just as brimming with moral outrage as the Mail and it would be a nice change