Something not right.

As an addendum to yesterday's post, here's another statistic on crime and conviction rates which I think we should be at least equally concerned about. Did you know that around 2 out of every 3 people who are arrested, put on trial and plead not guilty are subsequently acquitted? This either means that our prosecutory system is crap ("not fit for purpose" to use a phrase currently much in vogue) or that people are being arrested and charged, with all the unpleasant consequences that go with that, when the evidence simply isn't there. Either way, it's a pretty deplorable state of affairs.