UK Knife Crime

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There are two stabbings a day in London, 600 stabbings a year and that's only the capital.

There are multiple stabbings every week in the UK.

How can they treat the knife epidemic? Capital punishment? Longer prison sentences? Curfews?

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

46000 knife offenses
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53443246
Curious how that equates to the 23000 gun murders in us

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Originally posted by kimiko:

46000 knife offenses
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53443246
Curious how that equates to the 23000 gun murders in us

Nowhere close. There are usually about 650 homicides per year in UK.

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While the sort of gangs you see in london today grew from the mid to late 90s onwards, you're find a direct collation between surging kinfe attacks, murder and robbery 2 years after the conservatives took office, laid the way for the welfare reform and advised councils to ship families out of London and all over England.

Business became tight for the gangs after this and gave rise to gang conflicts far further than the next council estate (borough wars). At this time we also saw the birth of the famed county lines that saw the selling of drugs and weapons up and down the country. Interestingly your find the vast majority of places used in county lines operations were residence once moved out of london back in 2012.

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Seems like UK murder rate was higher in early 2000s than it was in 2024 https://www.statista.com/statistics/288195/homicide-rate-uk/

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

The ine i saw was 46000 offences with a knife, not includung weurd acid attacks.

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Originally posted by kimiko:

46000 knife offenses
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53443246
Curious how that equates to the 23000 gun murders in us

Curious how?

How does an "offence" (which includes carrying a blade larger than 3") compare to a murder?

In the same article, it states "256 killings with knives/sharp objects" so that would potentially include screw drivers, shards of glass, even pens.

23,000 > 256

[St✩rlight]

Originally posted by kimiko:

The ine i saw was 46000 offences with a knife, not includung weurd acid attacks.

Possession offences, mostly.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Originally posted by Starlight:

Nope.

He was a Lord in England.

Which Lord and why does that give you some kind of weight to any argument at all to do with knife crime and your general crusade against the UK .

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Dud uk legalize drugs or something like canada did, is that why the gang drug wats ar so high there

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I don't know why people talk about knife crimes, a much bigger issue with UK from my knowledge is the wages are pretty bad compared to other countries due to higher inequality.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Oi! You got a loicense fer dis thread?

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possibly an idea to fix the reasons that make people feel fine about killing each other

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Funny fact - New York has higher knife crime rate then London.

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https://youtu.be/h8nQbB1L_2Q?si=jDut4SKxeVtLtwjE

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That's nothing compared to the U.S.