# What happens after a crime

> More than a quarter of street crime closes with no suspect identified.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `crime-outcomes`
- Source: [Police.uk](https://data.police.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/what-happens-after](https://londongraph.com/g/what-happens-after)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/what-happens-after](https://londongraph.com/data/what-happens-after)

## Methodology

The recorded outcome for every street-level crime in Greater London in the latest published month. Outcomes lag the offence, so a large share sit at 'under investigation' or 'awaiting an outcome' simply because they are recent rather than because nothing happened.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/what-happens-after): More than a quarter of street crime closes with no suspect identified.
- [Share over time](https://londongraph.com/g/what-happens-after?view=share): Normalize each period to show how the mix changes.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/what-happens-after?view=distribution): Show every published value around the median and quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.