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Sunday, March 05, 2023

UPDATE: According to official statistics¹³⁴⁵, there were around 45,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales (excluding Greater Manchester Police Force) in the year ending March 2022.

This was a 16% increase from the previous year⁴. There were also 300 murders involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales in the same period⁵, which was the highest total since 1946.

The Guardian² reports that knife crime has continued to rise in 2023, with several fatal stabbings occurring in London and other parts of the country.




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Source: Conversation with Bing, 05/03/2023:

(1) Knife crime in England and Wales for 2020 by ethnicity. https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/knifecrimeinenglandandwalesfor2020byethnicity Accessed 05/03/2023.

(2) Knife crime statistics - House of Commons Library. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/ Accessed 05/03/2023.

(3) Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: April to ... - GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-april-to-june-2022 Accessed 05/03/2023.

(4) Knife Crime Statistics | The Ben Kinsella Trust. https://benkinsella.org.uk/knife-crime-statistics/ Accessed 05/03/2023.

(5) Knife crime | UK news | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/knifecrime Accessed 05/03/2023.



Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Knife crime soars to record high in 2019; visit this blog post to check stabbings in your local area

SHOCKING to see knife crime reaching a record high caused by years of complacency and ostrich 'head in the sand' inaction and cuts by government - and very worrying, poor policing.

To be fair, there's been terrorism to deal with - but the ease with which MPs can make cuts versus intelligence required to invest and improve country culture saw our elected politicians proving their low IQ. Apparently many of these people are all highly educated, and their counterpart senior civil servants too.

Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose to a little over 44,000 from c.41,000 in the year to June 2019.

How bad is knife crime in your home town? The BBC has published a zoomable map on its website:


To understnad more about the knife crime scourge devastating more and more lives of victims, family and friends, read more here - Analysis of the statistics and Places where knife crime is rising fastest.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

MAYOR tries to avoid responsibility for knife crime rise

AS SUMMER holidays start, Sadiq Khan faces pressure for failing to prevent rises in knife crime and prevent serious youth violence.

If you study what Khan says in this video, it covers what we may have read is every issue causing knife crime; remarkable - like a perfectly written lengthy script.


So much time and consideration getting the words correct - better if such time was spent on solving the problems, surely?

Or, more relevant, he and others (the Government + all MPs) should not have sleepwalked into soaring knife crime levels ... there's been plenty of evidence knife crime was always rising.

These people, it seems, simply haven’t placed people’s lives above other political agendas (sic. power + career agendas).

Read more about this knife crime story on the Express website