Needless to say, the conclusion is that it hasn't and there are several suggestions about what the Government could do next to improve matters.
One of them, hidden low down in the report, but pounced on by journalists, is the scrapping of police targets.
The public wants to see police on the streets, not in police stations filling in paperwork, it appears.
The report's analysis shows that people don't feel crime is being detected.
They feel the system is too distant and there is little sense that criminals are being punished.
The solution to that is hard to find, apparently.
Well, I can tell them one crucial thing which has created this state of affairs – the closure of local courts, which this Government and its predecessor became obsessed with in the late 1990s.
Since then, justice – at a local level, at least – has become almost unreportable.
Whereas crimes committed in and around Haverhill used to be dealt with in Haverhill Magistrates Court on a Wednesday, they can now be dealt with almost anywhere, some distance away, and on any day of the week.
When I started reporting for the Echo, one reporter, sometimes two because there were two courts, spent the day in Haverhill court (or Linton or Halstead courts) and people could read about how local criminals were punished next week in the Echo – or another local newspaper, were they so inclined.
Now it is really just a matter of pot luck – whether we get to hear about a case, whether the courts tell us, whether anyone can be spared to spend four hours in Bury or Sudbury or Mildenhall or Ipswich on the off-chance that a case might actually be dealt with.
The best we could do was provide a list of the results of cases, provided by the courts, but a few months ago they decided that was costing too much and stopped the service.
We're still in negotiation to start it up again.
Anyone would think they actually want criminals to escape public notice, whereas it used to be a crucial part of the punishment that everyone knew what you'd done.
It's the same with the police. They are very keen to tell you about a crime that has been committed when they need a bit of publicity to help their inquiries.
But they are extremely reticent about telling you when they've caught anybody.
And then they wonder why the public don't think they are doing a better job!
How are the public supposed to know?
Even on the extremely rare occasion they might detain someone in public, there won't be many watchers and they won't know what's going on.
So my recipe for improving public confidence in the police and justice system is pretty straightforward.
Let police publicise all their successes – not just the ones that are topical for that month's targets.
Then get the cases dealt with at a local level by local magistrates who know the area (and most of the criminals), and in a place which enables the hearings to be publicised.
Finally have a system whereby courts are required to publicise their results.
In reality the system works pretty well and the police have a reasonable success rate, but the public never see it.
All they see is a fight kicking off in the street on a Saturday night and no police in sight – or a group of youngsters making a nuisance of themselves and no police available to sort them out – or a line of vehicles scratched overnight and no chance of identifying the perpetrator.
If perception is the problem, publicity is the answer.