Revealed: 106,000 crime reports ditched / Scotland on Sunday, 27 Nov 2005

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2310732005
"MORE than 100,000 police crime reports were ditched before reaching court by Scotland's prosecutors last year, up a third on the previous 12 months and the strongest indication yet of the crisis gripping the nation's justice system. Despite many thousands of hours of detective work, fiscals marked a total of 106,481 crime reports with 'no proceedings' compared with 81,028 in 2003/2004. The abandoned cases ranged from 'petty' crimes such as vandalism to serious assault. "