Many Burglaries in Scotland not investigated

Sadly and very unfortunately it's the same all over the UK :( you're just given a crime number and told to report it to your insurance company if no-one had been physically hurt when your home during the burglary. All the more reason to ensure that our homes have the best security possible..but even that won't prevent the most determined .
 

Not just here in the Uk either...it happens with monotonous regularity in Spain. I had an attempted burglary when I was at home I walked into an upstairs bedroom room where the guy had just climbed in ..the Guardia did come out and look at the crime scene but because I beat the *** out of the burglar..( and I promise you I did) and his blood was testament to that all over my terrace.. he did manage to get up and escape albeit dragging his badly damaged leg behind him ...they had a cursory look around our gated community found no-one ( he was clearly long gone) were not interested in looking for the burglar afterwards , and just told me to make my home secure and claim on my insurance. ..I could tell you exactly how the police told me to deal with a burglar if in Spain if they came again, but it's not legal so I won't say on an open forum!!

In the Uk if the same circumstances had occurred I'd have been arrested for GBH and the burglar would be allowed to claim compensation for his injuries!
 
I went to give Holly a good reputation for her response to the burglar who broke into her home, and I got the notice that I gave her a bad reputation. Is there anyway to change it to a good reputation? I have never given a bad reputation to anyone, and I definitely wouldn't give one to Holly.
 
Misty said:
I went to give Holly a good reputation for her response to the burglar who broke into her home, and I got the notice that I gave her a bad reputation. Is there anyway to change it to a good reputation? I have never given a bad reputation to anyone, and I definitely wouldn't give one to Holly.
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I've been there too Misty, there is no way to reverse it unfortunately. I am sure Holly knows your intention.
 
Misty said:
I went to give Holly a good reputation for her response to the burglar who broke into her home, and I got the notice that I gave her a bad reputation. Is there anyway to change it to a good reputation? I have never given a bad reputation to anyone, and I definitely wouldn't give one to Holly.
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Misty, PM Seabreeze. She can fix it.
 
Shirley said:
Wow! Who knew that crime was rampant in Scotland??????
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I was born and raied in Scotland if anyone should know about crime statistic I should know..my whole family still live there and when i was growing up, my city Glasgow was rated the most violent city in Europe and Edinburgh at one time was the narcotics capital of Europe. Scotland like anywhere in the world has bad...very bad parts and some very very nice parts!!
 
hollydolly said:
Sadly and very unfortunately it's the same all over the UK :( you're just given a crime number and told to report it to your insurance company if no-one had been physically hurt when your home during the burglary. All the more reason to ensure that our homes have the best security possible..but even that won't prevent the most determined .
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Same thing happens in Australia. The police don't waste their resources on petty crime that they will not be able to solve. However, by making a report, it may be possible for them to use the information later if they catch a perp in the act.
 
"All the more reason to ensure that our homes have the best security possible.."

I am very open to hearing about home security. Types, advantages/disadvantages, cost, reliability of provider of service, stuff like that. My actual knowledge of home security is about diddledy-squat in dimension. imp
 
Shirley said:
Wow! Who knew that crime was rampant in Scotland??????
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Do they export all that Scotch Whiskey, or drink it themselves? Crime is easily successfully accomplished if the victim has, er.....consumed a bit too much! :eek: imp
 
applecruncher said:
Because police don’t think it’s a “good use of time.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-not-good-use-time-warns-chief-constable.html
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Burglaries, and property crimes...where there are no human injuries, are usually the lowest priorities for the police....Everywhere. If you look up the statistics on the FBI or DOJ web sites, you find that only about 3 or 4% of these types of crimes are ever solved in the U.S. About the Only way the cops catch these thieves is if they are lucky enough to catch them in the act, or they have some reason to search some thugs house, or apartment, and find a bunch of stolen goods. Heck, only slightly over Half of the homicides and murders are ever solved...so some home break-in has the odds Way in favor of the thief.
 
Don M, yes I realize very few burglaries are solved. The point is that there are burglaries and many other crimes in Scotland (which has slightly over half the population of Michigan). There IS crime in Scotland despite what some would like everyone to believe.
 
applecruncher said:
Don M, yes I realize very few burglaries are solved. The point is that there are burglaries and many other crimes in Scotland (which has slightly over half the population of Michigan). There IS crime in Scotland despite what some would like everyone to believe.
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I'm sure that Scotland has some crime...just as virtually every nation on the planet. If there were a truly crime free nation, it would probably be called Utopia, or Heaven. Crime is usually determined by the environment people live in. Some of our inner cities are little more than zones of Anarchy, with gunfire going off at all hours of the day and night. On the flip side, where we live, the weekly police report usually consists of a couple of DUI's, a nuisance barking dog, and an occasional petty theft.
 

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