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[Roland Perry]

In message <FMEFLOMOCGIMKOKKKLFIAEAECGAA.oml@sysrx.uk.com>, Owen Lewis
<oml@sysrx.uk.com> writes

>I think my left leg has just got a little longer. Unless and until the Star
>Chamber is reintroduced to this country, prosecutions are a matter of public
>record. So is their outcome, both in matters of finding and sentence.

Indeed, but there is significant work (or indeed intellectual property)
in collecting all that public information into a digestible and
correlated report.

>Still, its remarkable what some will volunteer to sign away when asked to do
>so.

If it helps my work, without me having to do an impossible amount of
original research...  But it's not even as bad as that. Things would be
pretty grim if one professional couldn't tell another something in
confidence.

>An average does not vary 'according to crime'. It is an average - of 8% - we
>are told. Ergo, 100% on kidnapping (one on 10 years?)

Once again, it's several a year. Once again, it's not often publicised
(perhaps for fear of copycat crimes). I do, however, detect a feeling in
the Met that they'd actually like kidnappers to know that if they do it
in London they *will* be caught.

> means that the
>detection rate is less that 8% for some other crime. Nigerian Scams,
>perchance?

Yes, for some crimes it will be less. Parking tickets, for example. I
honestly don't know what the clear-up rate is for Nigerian Scams, but
it's greater than zero!

>> Then you would be completely wrong.
>
>In what?

Believing that the police don't ever bring charges for Nigerian scams.

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