London is a special case as serious/organised crime teams are busy dealing with a much larger amount of violent gang activity plus the risks that Islamic terrorism and extreme right wing activity pose to security. Add to this a large number of scrotes what will nick whatever isn’t nailed down or guarded, even if cops can’t always catch’em they still have to do the paperwork.
Each murder in London has 30 cops allocated to investigate it.. London raves tend to happen in inner city boroughs with a very high crime rate. compared to the level of other serious crime cops simply do not as yet have the resources to deal with them.
in the provincial areas crime is much rarer (cows may wander in the street but don’t usually rob peoples x-boxes), and murder is less common. Where serious violent crime does happen, it is often an “open and shut case” where attacker and victim are known to one another (very often domestics or disagreements between former friends) and evidence is fairly obvious, and there is a moral code here where when it goes as far as rape or murder people will talk to the Police (in many cases the attacker often turns himself in!) so is cleared up fairly quickly, unlike London gang attacks where the feds often come up against a wall of silence.
This does however mean that the cops (particularly detective ranks) have much more time to investigate such things as raves and the night time economy.
Illegal raves now count as serious and organised crime due to the level of drugs being sold at them and evidence that some young people are simply funding their entire lifestyles through large-scale drug dealing, which means they are interacting with much older and nastier people further up the chain to get the middle level supplies.
