Unsolved Crime. Having the wrong focus.

The detection rate for offences of violence stood at 49 per cent last year, according to official figures issued in a parliamentary answer.
When Labour came to power, almost three quarters of violent crimes were solved.
The figures, which mean that every year hundreds of thousands of victims do not see justice done, caused a fresh dispute last night over policing priorities.
Rank-and-file police leaders and opposition politicians said too much time was taken with red tape or chasing lesser crimes to attain government targets.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: "It is bad enough that so much violent crime is being committed. It is a real insult to victims that over half of perpetrators are getting away with it.
"This is a direct result of Labour's target culture, which has incentivised the police to pursue minor crimes over serious violent ones, and the reams of red tape that tie officers to their desks when the public wants them out on the street."
It emerged last month that levels of some of the most serious forms of violent crime were higher than previously claimed because of the way police now recorded offences. In a leaked document at the weekend, the Home Office's leading civil servant admitted that the Government had failed to reduce serious violence because of a focus on targets.
The latest figures for England and Wales will renew the pressure on police chiefs to send officers to visit the victim of every crime after Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, backed such an approach in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday.
Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression, said: "It is frightening. Police are tied up in so much paperwork. We have to put more officers on the streets."
The detection rate, where a perpetrator is identified and dealt with, for all violent offences was 49 per cent in 2007-08. That means that of 961,188 recorded offences, 490,000 went unsolved.

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