NI: Nearly a third of crime victims think crime too trivial to report
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Nearly a third of Northern Ireland’s victims of crime did not report the crime to police because they thought it was too trivial or the police would not do anything.
The figure emerged in a Department of Justice briefing which sets out findings from the 2015/16 Northern Ireland Crime Survey.
An estimated 114,000 incidents of crime occurred during the 12-month recall periods for NICS 2015/16, down 15 per cent on NICS 2014/15 (134,000) and three-fifths (61 per cent) lower than the peak in 2003/04 (295,000), equating to 181,000 fewer crimes.
Just over half (52 per cent) of all NICS 2015/16 crimes that are broadly comparable with recorded crime were reported to the police.
The most common reason cited by NICS 2015/16 respondents for not reporting a crime to the police was ‘too trivial / no loss / police would not/could not do anything’ (66 per cent).
This was followed by ‘private matter / dealt with the matter ourselves’ (23 per cent) and ‘inconvenient to report’ (12 per cent).
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