Identifying Corpses Not a High Priority for Russian Police, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Reports

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 5 – Russian officials identify only half as many of bodies found without IDs as do American ones and only one-eighth as many as British officials do, and the real differences may be far greater because Russian police often do not report about such deaths or include them in statistical compilations.
    There are many reasons for that, the To Be Precise portal says; but among the most important is that Russian police do not make the identification of bodies a high priority given the other demands on their time (tochno.st/materials/v-rossii-pocti-12-tysiac-tel-neopoznannyx-umersix-rasskazyvaem-kto-popadaet-v-etu-statistiku).
    That means of course that families often never find out what happened to their loved ones and that criminals can expect that the bodies of their victims won’t be identified and so no cases will be brought against the guilty parties, yet another way the Russian militia tilt the balance against the innocent and toward the criminals.