England and Wales Report Record High in Sex Crimes
Sex crimes logged by police in England and Wales have reached a record high, with the number of police-recorded sexual offences reaching 183,587 through December 2021, their highest level over a 12-month period,
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Sex crimes logged by police in England and Wales have reached a record high, with the number of police-recorded sexual offences reaching 183,587 through December 2021, their highest level over a 12-month period, reports The Guardian. The figures, which include cases of rape, stalking, spiking and domestic abuse, represent a 22 percent increase over 2020 and 13 percent over 2019. About 37 percent of sexual offences recorded were rapes, which rose 21percent from 55,592 in the year to December 2020.
Meanwhile, prosecutions have fallen 60 percent in four years to 2,102 in 2019-20, even as the number of reports to police increased. Home Office figures also show that the proportion of all offenses resulting in a charge fell in a year from 7.5 percent to 5.8 percent, not much more than a third of the rate of 15.5 percent in 2014-15 when records began. Vera Baird, the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales, said the numbers left the government with little hope of reaching its goal of returning to 2016-17 prosecution levels of 5,190 cases a year.
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