{"id":193,"date":"2011-11-19T19:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-11-19T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:17:13","slug":"in-britain-knife-crime-is-much-more-deadly-than-gun-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/19\/in-britain-knife-crime-is-much-more-deadly-than-gun-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"In Britain, knife crime is much more deadly than gun crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having just learnt of this terrible story – Four Metropolitan Police officers stabbed in London<\/a> – it took place in this neighbourhood<\/a>, \u00a0I did some research and came across this very informative website, www.knifecrimes.org<\/a> which I’ve now added to our blogroll. Violent crime as I’ve written here before, is a very broad category that we have to work with on UKCrimeStats with 143 types of offences that can be used to charge a suspect. We now have a new category called Public Disorder and Weapons, with just 1 month of data so far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now back to the theme of the post – according to KnifeCrimes, the arresting fact is that in the 9 years to 2005, victims were 4 times more likely to be murdered by<\/a> knives than by guns – by 2,026 to 601. \u00a0When you add to that the number of people who are merely injured rather than murdered, one starts to understand why knife crime has been such a priority for Politicians and the Police for some years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having just learnt of this terrible story – Four Metropolitan Police officers stabbed in London – it took place in this neighbourhood, \u00a0I did some research and came across this very informative website, www.knifecrimes.org which I’ve now added to our … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knife-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t