Yes there is under reporting. In pockets by individual forces, and there is over reporting too, getting petty criminals to have crimes taken into consideration to get them off the books.

Violent crime is followed up. There is nothing to report anywhere that isn't down to target chasing. That is slightly different to shooting black men indiscriminately if you are a white cop. The hoo ha when corruption is revealed results in huge name shame and clear out.

Not quite The USA eh?

Oh and not with guns either. We debated for years before letting police have tasers or allow armed police to patrol airports.

No mate. I travel extensively and know parts of your country better than parts of my own. I feel less safe in yours and part of that is allowing people to carry guns. Another part is letting police carry guns. Ours don't. An armed response unit is deployed as needed in a situation. If your bang bang industry folded, we'd have less guns too.

The difference is that over here, the few guns carried in the street are by criminals. Gangs mainly, and then we have less in the whole country than in some of your small towns.

Police target fiddling and the fact it is being addressed has no bearing on this.

Keep banging the rocks together.