Since the police record many crimes that have no individual victim, (for instance drug offences, drink-driving, shop-lifting) the proportion of offences identified by the CSEW and recorded by police is well below half.
Most such arrests are for charges related to violent behaviour or car-related offences, such as drink-driving.
Nick Freeman, a lawyer who has represented a string of celebrities accused of drink driving offences, criticised the sentence.
How striking then – and dispiriting – to read recent reports that the compensation to over 400 sex abuse victims has been reduced because they had themselves committed criminal offences, including offences involving drink and drugs.
This included a re-enforced code of conduct for players and officials and greater enforcement of existing legislation to deal with sectarianism and drink related offences.
And, as it says on the back of his book – The Layman's Guide To The English Constitution – "he personally made over two hundred arrests, many for crimes and drink driving offences and was involved in three murder enquiries, in one of which he detained the prime suspect".
Having been fined $100,000 £50,0000) for attacking a fan, warned for drink-driving offences, accused of keeping a machete in his car and sentenced to three years' probation for beating up his driver, Busta Rhymes knows about modern urban life.
The ex-footballer Clarke Carlisle is facing court action over an alleged drink driving offence after being charged just days before he was seriously injured in a collision with a lorry.
Think of where we could go with this: I can see rich potential in the motor area, where nicking cars from outside pubs would also have a significant impact on drink-driving offences.
Those incidents will see a spike in the number of drink-driving offences recorded.
The other arrests were for drink-related offences, assault and breach of the peace.
