[OC] Knife crime in London from 2012 to 2021Submitted by ShreckAndDonkey123 t3_11ht83l in dataisbeautiful
Splyce123 t1_jav28gv wrote
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So these figures don't represent someone having an injury or killed with a knife. It doesn't even represent a knife being used in an attack.
The vast majority of these offences will be where the police have searched a person (usually in the normal course of dealing with an unrelated crime) and found a knife on their person. In the UK carrying a knife without a reasonable reason is an offence.
ShreckAndDonkey123 OP t1_jav2jvx wrote
In hindsight, there could've also been a line on the graph for homicides by knife. There isn't really data available for attacks involving a knife, as far as I am aware, or at least not data for each year from 2012-2021
Splyce123 t1_jav35nh wrote
The line showing homicides by knife would be so close to the base of the graph it would be almost impossible to see. There were 124 homicides in total in London in 2021/22.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/862984/murders-in-london/
greatdrams23 t1_jav73os wrote
Yes, and the number of knives found friends greatly in the number of times police look for them.
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