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The great opportunity: how Covid transformed global crime

Dec 30, 2020

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lauraspinney

in Forensic, Journalism, Medicine, People, Psychology

BY the end of March, one week into the UK’s first lockdown, recorded crime in Lancashire had dropped by a startling 40% compared with the four-year average. “At first there was some mild panic,” says DCI Eric Halford, of Lancashire Constabulary. “Most senior officers expected a surge in demand…” This article first appeared in The Guardian on…