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Of the 50,973 knife crime offences in England and Wales in the year to June 2024, 31% (15,802) were recorded by the Metropolitan Police, 10% (5,122) by West Midlands Police and 5% (2,334) by West ...
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the force had 165 reported knife and sharp instrument offences per 100,000 people from October 2023 to September 2024. Reported knife crime ...
Recorded knife crime rose by 7% from just above 41,000 in the year to June 2018 to just above 44,000 in the year to June 2019, knifepoint rapes, robberies and assaults logged by police continued to rise. Javed Khan of Barnardo's said over the ONS statistics, “Knife crime is a symptom of a much wider, complex problem. Too many young people are ...
There were 400 more crimes involving knives in Bristol in 2023/2024 than the previous year, data has revealed. Knives were used in 1,953 offences between April 2023 and March 2024, compared to ...
In general, knife crime is one of the leading causes of violent crime in the UK, with 50,510 knife-related offences recorded in England and Wales, in the year ending March 2024. Statistics for knife-related crime have increased by 78% (in England and Wales) over the past 10 years, as per statistics recorded by the Office for National Statistics ...
Home Office figures show the number of knife crime offences recorded by the Met was rising at the start of the last decade, from 12,485 in 2010/11 to 13,260 in 2011/12, after which it fell ...
The homicide rate in the UK was 5.2 per 100,000 in 2023 and 5.6 per 100,000 in 2024 the third highest rate in Western Europe, after Spain and France. The homicide rate in England and Wales increased 39% from the 38 year low of 3.89 per 100,000 in 2015 to a decade high of 5.23 per 100,000 in 2018. [citation needed]
West Midlands Police continue to have the highest rate of knife crime offences per 100,000 people.