Investigations

Work in progress, not rumours in print.

These topics are active lines of inquiry. A listing here does not establish any allegation as fact.

SA-008 · Public protection · Investigation open

Who is being housed — and who is being protected?

A Scotland-wide investigation into homelessness accommodation, offender management and the safeguards surrounding children, teenagers and vulnerable residents.

Status: evidence gathering · FOI preparation · Scotland-wide mapping
SA-001 · Justice & accountability

Offender-management transparency in Scotland

Testing national reporting, MAPPA-related public information, accommodation safeguards, enforcement data and claims circulating around community protests.

Publication gate: source lock + legal review + right of reply
SA-002 · Public health

Scotland's drug deaths

Building a source-locked account of mortality, treatment, inequality, drug markets and the limits of broad headline statistics.

Publication gate: final statistical source verification
SA-003 · Public health

Cocaine's changing place in Scotland's drug crisis

Examining what official data supports about cocaine-related harms without converting limited data into an unsupported “epidemic” label.

Publication gate: evidence and terminology review
SA-004 · Public health

Suicide in Scotland

A careful, data-led examination of age, trend and context with reporting safeguards appropriate to a sensitive subject.

Publication gate: sensitive-content review
SA-006 · Justice data

From report to court: the sexual-crime data gap

Testing what can legitimately be concluded across Police Scotland, prosecution and court datasets without manufacturing an attrition rate from incompatible populations.

Publication gate: dataset compatibility and agency responses
SA-007 · Policing & protest

Policing the protests

Comparing incident evidence with published policing standards while distinguishing peaceful protest, public-order concerns and criminal conduct.

Publication gate: incident evidence + rights clearance