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Legal Data Observatory

What is measured about law and justice, where, how recently, and by whom — and what is not.

Police

IndicatorCountries with dataLatestSource
Complaints against police complaints none held
Deaths during police encounters deaths none held
Police misconduct investigations investigations none held
Police personnel per 100,000 population 37 2024 Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Recorded police use-of-force incidents incidents none held
Stop and search per 1,000 population none held

Justice transparency

Latest figure we hold for each country, with its year and source. Definitions differ between countries — compare with care, and read each source's notes.

IndicatorUnited KingdomFranceGermanySweden
Professional judges
per 100,000 population
no figure held 11.2 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 26.3 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 9.0 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Pending cases
cases
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Case clearance rate
% of incoming cases
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Median case duration
days
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Conviction rate
% of cases decided
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Police personnel
per 100,000 population
no figure held 361.3 2022 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 320.4 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 226.0 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Prison population rate
per 100,000 population
no figure held 117.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 70.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 106.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Prison occupancy
% of official capacity
no figure held 129.3 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 81.6 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 111.7 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Pretrial detainees
% of prison population
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Legal-aid spending
per capita
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held

Court caseload, backlog and duration series are defined but no open source publishes them consistently yet; they stay empty rather than estimated.