LONDON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Knife crime reached an all-time high in Britain in 2018, with its capital the hardest hit as people described London's blade offences as a "disease", official figures revealed Thursday. The British Office for National Statistics said that 14,725 knife crimes, ...
figure is more than three times that of Greater Manchester (2,294) and the West Midlands (2,303), the areas with the next biggest totals.The statistics have been revealed in the new British Crime Survey which for the first time includes a breakdown of serious violent offences involving ...
Knife crime data from a 12-month period could be used to help forecast the London neighbourhoods most likely to suffer a fatal stabbing the following year, according to latest research. Cambridge criminologists worked with a Metropolitan Police detective to show that the number of assaults resulti...
"The new government urgently needs to work with charities, education, health, youth workers, the criminal justice system and local communities to find long-term solutions, so vulnerable children have a reason to turn away from crime," he added....
Knife crime increased by 22 percent last year in England and Wales, with almost 40,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, according to the Office for National Statistics. Some fatal stabbings involved young people, particularly in London. ...
Violent crime in the United Kingdom is increasing; figures from London show a 17.9% increase from 2003 to 2004, and one easily accessible weapon used in many incidents is the kitchen knife. Unfortunately, no data seem to have been collected to indicate how often kitchen knives are used in ...
The new statistics blow apart police and Government claims that knife crime rates have barely changed in ten years. Their figures ONLY include stabbings where victims are so badly hurt they need hospital treatment - NOT the hundreds of cases of people too scared to go to the cops or a doc...
In the UK knife crime includes any incident involving a bladed instrument. The rate of this type of crime has been steadily increasing over the past five years, according to the Office for National Statistics. In the first six months of this year, 248 people were killed with a knife in En...
MP Sarah Newton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism, said Monday: "This government will act wherever necessary to cut crime and keep our communities safe. Zombie killer knives glamorize violence and cause devastating damage -- they have no ...
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