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The data of the police's criminal cases are revealed: a decrease in prosecutions Israel today

2023-02-19T07:30:31.129Z


The latest crime report in Israel published by the Knesset's research center shows an unencouraging picture of a jump in the number of criminal cases • Between 2020 and 2022 the number of crimes against people, sexual crimes and economic crimes increased 


A report by the Knesset's Research Center submitted to the Internal Security Committee, chaired by MK Zvika Vogel, indicates that from the beginning of 2017 to the end of August 2022, the police opened 1,622,098 cases on crimes committed in local authorities in Israel - an average of 31 cases per year per thousand residents.

The most cases were opened in the southern district - 41 per thousand residents - followed by: Tel Aviv district (37 cases), Haifa (33 cases), the north (30), the center (27), Jerusalem (27) and Judea and Samaria (15).

In the period under discussion, the annual average of cases opened in the Jewish authorities is similar to the average in the Arab authorities: 29 per thousand residents in Jewish and 28 in Arab.

In the eight municipalities defined as involved - Jerusalem, Haifa, Lod, Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Nof HaGalil, Acre, Ramla and Tel Aviv - an average of 41 cases per thousand residents were opened in these years.

51 thousand criminal arrests

The research center's document analyzes police data regarding the cases opened in 2020 according to the suspect's residence authority and those against whom complaints were filed.

In this year, the highest rate in relation to the size of the population was in the Arab authorities - 23 per thousand inhabitants, compared to the national average of 14 per thousand.

The mixed and Jewish authorities recorded lower rates: 16 and 12 per thousand, respectively.

Police data shows that in the years 2017-2020 the number of arrests decreased by 22%, and between 2020 and 2021 the number of arrests increased by 11%.

In total, more than 51 thousand criminal arrests were made in 2021.

Starting in 2018, there was a decrease in the filing of indictments out of the arrests made - from 51% in 2018 to 42% in 2021.

According to the CBS data, in the years 2000-2020 there was a sharp decrease in the number of adults who were prosecuted and convicted - from 40 thousand in 2000 to 18 thousand in 2020.

The national headquarters of the Israel Police, photo: Yoav Ari Dudkevich

Tools for enforcement agencies

The report does not know how much the decrease in prosecutions was due to a decrease in crime or as a result of changes in enforcement, and in particular the expansion of the use of conditional settlements in these years (the law allows the authorities to avoid filing an indictment against a suspect and close the case in his case, if he admits to committing the offenses). It is not clear if in all the cases where a conditional settlement was signed, an indictment would have been filed without it, or if the case would have been closed without an indictment.

The situation is completely different in the Arab sector: in those years, the proportion of Arabs among those facing trial increased from 28.8% in 2000 to 34.5% in 2020.

In the years examined, the number of moral offenses (growing and selling drugs, pimps for prostitution) and property decreased significantly, while at the same time the number of offenses against a person (45.48%), sexual offenses (18.64%) and other offenses, including financial, licensing and administrative offenses (27.31%) increased.

The decrease in moral offenses is explained, among other things, by the beginning of the implementation of the legislation regarding the non-criminalization of cannabis offenses in 2019.

Vogel

Production of lessons, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Fogel states in the report that he requested the document "in order to obtain an up-to-date picture" of selected data on reported crime in Israel, and on its handling by the enforcement authorities.

"I intend to hold discussions, together with the members of the National Security Committee, with the aim of drawing lessons, making recommendations, and giving constitutional tools to the enforcement agencies, which will help them increase the sense of security."

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Source: israelhayom

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