DECREASE OF CRIME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 205, 10 May 1915, Page 8

DECREASE OF CRIME.

Mi 1 Mui.-a.i ue la chtugin.' U;ss gran.; jury ai die Middlesex slons, where there were only five cases for trial, commented on the continued decrease of crime, but warned them not to be too optimistic in taking the records in, court as being a time index of the measure of crime. The true index, he said, was the number of cases reported to the police. From statistics he found, for example, that out of 97;000 indictabljp cases throughout the country reported to the police, only 60,000 came before the courts. Again, in the Metropolitan Police district, indictable offences in 1913 numbered 17,900 but out of that number only 14,500 came before the courts. With regard to such cases as burglary anrd housebreaking, which were difficult to detect, the proportion was only about one-third. That was no fault of the police.