Brickbat: By the Numbers

Scotland Yard reports just 5.5 percent of burglary reports in the United Kingdom between April 2017 and April 2018 resulted in an arrest. And police made arrests in just 7 percent of robberies reported in that period. In defense of the police, Chief Constable Bill Skelly, a spokesman for the the National Police Chiefs’ Council, says that those numbers include many crimes in which there is “no suspect and little prospect of a criminal justice outcome.”