{"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":"<p>Having just learnt of this terrible story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-15803860\">Four Metropolitan Police officers stabbed in London<\/a> &#8211; it took place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/Neighbourhood\/Metropolitan_Police\/Queensbury\/NW9_9HN\/51.5852015\/-0.2799461\/Neighbourhoodhttp:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/Neighbourhood\/Metropolitan_Police\/Queensbury\/NW9_9HN\/51.5852015\/-0.2799461\/Neighbourhood\">in this neighbourhood<\/a>, \u00a0I did some research and came across this very informative website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knifecrimes.org\/about-us.html\">www.knifecrimes.org<\/a> which I&#8217;ve now added to our blogroll. Violent crime as I&#8217;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 <strong>Public Disorder and Weapons, with just 1 month of data so far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to the theme of the post &#8211; according to KnifeCrimes, the arresting fact is that in the 9 years to 2005, victims were 4 times more likely to be murdered <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\n\">by<\/a> knives than by guns &#8211; 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":"<p>Having just learnt of this terrible story &#8211; Four Metropolitan Police officers stabbed in London &#8211; it took place in this neighbourhood, \u00a0I did some research and came across this very informative website, www.knifecrimes.org which I&#8217;ve now added to our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/19\/in-britain-knife-crime-is-much-more-deadly-than-gun-crime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knife-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}