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Manak Solicitors’ Police Suspect Data
Manak Solicitors analysed police data obtained through Freedom of Information requests, revealing that recorded suspect entries rose among people aged 35 and over while falling among younger age groups. The headline-grabbing contrast challenges the familiar assumption that crime is mainly a problem among teenagers and young adults, while the figures also show that younger adults still had higher population-adjusted rates.
Why it worked: It flipped a cliché with FOI-sourced, year-on-year age splits—older suspects rising while youth fell—giving journalists a clean, counterintuitive headline and chart.
The lesson: Consider using a simple FOI to produce a before/after split that reverses a common belief and yields a crisp, chartable headline.
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| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| thejusticegap.com | Police records of suspects rise among over-35s, data shows | Monday 26th October, 2026 |