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West Midlands Police continue to have the highest rate of knife crime offences per 100,000 people. ... Knife-enabled homicides stood at 233 in the year to March 2024, up very slightly on the 226 ...
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 ...
Of the 48,716 knife crime offences in the year to September 2023, 29% (13,957) were recorded by the Metropolitan Police, 11% (5,239) by West Midlands Police, and 5% (2,373) by West Yorkshire Police.
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 ...
These statistics also show that knife crime at its peak reached 55,170 incidents (or 51,982 if GMP is excluded) between April 2019 and March 2020. ... May 2024 – Home Office in ... Section 139 ...
As of April, 2024, excluding Scotland, the overall crime rate for the United Kingdom was 85 crimes per 1,000 people. The overall crime rate in the U.K. decreased by 4.9% as compared to the crime rate for the period ending a year earlier, in April 2023. [26]
Some 13,957 offences were recorded in the 12 months to September 2023, Home Office data shows.
Figures show the rate of UK unemployment rose to 4.2% between December 2023 and March 2024, its highest level for six months. [334] EasyJet cancels all flights to and from Tel Aviv for the whole of the summer, citing safety concerns following Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel. [335]