DETECTION OF CRIME
DECLINE IN HOMICIDE CASES IN BRITAIN.
Commenting on the return of criminal statistics for 1927 issued by the Home Office, the London “Daily Tele graph” emphasises the decline, in spite of an increase of population, in cases of homicide. “The very satisfactory downward tendency in the ratio of murders to population is no doubt largely atributable to the fact that the number of unsolved murder mysteries is rapidly approaching zero,” it remarks. “Whatever their views on capital punishment, observers at home and abroad,” says the introductory note to the return, “agree that the strongest deterrent of murder is certainty that the murderer will be found out and dealt with. Notable instances of fine detective work arc sufficiently recent to provide a ready commentary on the claim implied. ’ Despite the gibes of many writers of detective stories, the public is by no means persuaded that the police detective Is a slow-witted dullard. On the contrary, we have the best reason to know that our country possesses a personnel and an organisation for the detection of crime and the tracking down of the criminal which are unequalled In any part of the world. The public 1.4 well justified in feeling that the enemies of society have their match in our vigilant. police force.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 12
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214DETECTION OF CRIME Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 12
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