Just as worryingly, a total of 69% of all crimes in the area are still under investigation. As this includes incidents that occurred at the very start of 2019, this means that a significant proportion of these cases include victims that have waited months, and potentially up to a year, for any kind of resolution to their case. In extremely sensitive scenarios such as a violent or sexual crime, this could seriously harm the welfare of the victims.
Furthermore, just over 10% of cases see an active resolution, in which either the police or the courts are involved. Since violent and sexual crimes make up 22% of all offences, this means over half of such incidents lack a decisive verdict. Although no months have quite reached the heights of February 2019, in which an average of 2 of these incidents happened per day, the statistics paint a worrying picture of violent and sexual crimes in Bristol and how they are being handled.