Then I looked for the link to support my argument. OMG, statista says that the violence rate is skyrocketing since 2015, at least in England and Wales. This is not the case for other Western European countries.
Quite interesting! I try not to interprete these numbers, because I don't know the reasons behind them.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Britain has descended into lawlessness, but not a vast exaggeration. A great deal of crime is simply being ignored, because there aren't the resources in the system to investigate or prosecute it.
It is in some of them like Sweden for example.
Sweden is well known for having high levels of this other factor right now, so your observation about violent crime is not surprising.
So long as we're objective about this and leave tabloid mentality for Reddit and Twitter (...ok, X)
Of course, I’m an immigrant, so…_shrug_
If you (or anybody, really) files a charge with the police you can bet good money on the fact that it enters the statistics. For all the faults of modern bureaucracy, being sloppy is not one of them. They may be ineffectual but the paperwork is in order!