Scotland’s murder rate is the lowest in 40 years – and this is why
telegraph.co.ukScottish Violence Reduction Unit while working for the police and now runs Community Justice Scotland. Her goal is to make Scotland the safest country in the world. ‘Safe is not just about crime and disorder.
Safe’s about feeling safe and about having a life that’s predictable, understandable and manageable with everyone having a sense of hope,’ she explains.
It’s an ambitious idea and yet, on past form, she has a good chance of pulling it off.When she co-founded what was then the Strathclyde Violence Reduction Unit in 2005, the World Health Organization had recently named Glasgow the ‘murder capital of Europe’.
The area had seen 82 homicides in the previous year, mostly from gang violence. Scotland had a higher violent death rate than the United States.
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