The failures of policing, prisons and probation as run from Westminster which have continued through 2018 surely increase the pressure for these to be devolved to an administration which can do better. However, there is one area in which Wales is clearly no better than in Britain as a whole and that is in the prosecution of offences of domestic violence. A BBC report shows that virtually no use is made in Wales of a 2015 law mirroring advances by the UK coalition government in order to reduce its prevalence. "Coercive or controlling behaviour was made illegal in 2015 - but figures show only 4% of complaints made to police in Wales resulted in a conviction," asserts the report.
The atavistic attitudes which one notes in Labour-dominated Welsh local politics clearly prevail among its police officers and prosecutors also.
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