> Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in arrests since before the pandemic. In 2019, forces logged 7,734 detentions.

viraptor 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This article really doesn't go into what the communication was about. They have some anecdata, but once you go into 10k+ of examples, you're almost guaranteed to get mistakes. Maybe the situation is bad overall, but that article really doesn't show it.

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4ndrewl 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In England and Wales there are 85k people serving custodial sentences and 250k community sentences. 12k seems significant, if true.

	▲	iamacyborg 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Arrests are not the same thing as imprisonment or community sentences.