Why Britain’s police hardly solve any crimes
Crime has become more complex. The police have not kept up
WHEN STAN GILMOUR started out as a “regular street bobby” in 1993, he remembers picking up “multiple burglaries a day”. It was nearly all “traditional crime” back then: “you know, the whodunnit, broken window, property gone, search for the suspect”. There were no mobile phones or CCTV cameras, which meant lots of knocking on doors and learning to “manage the crime scene” to yield clues.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “No clue”
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