for contrast, Statista for 2016 shows about 1,600 knife murders in the US (just under 5 a day). I haven’t found a link yet that details US knife ‘offenses’ (which I guess could be anything from threatening someone on the street to robbing a store)
Murder - number of victims by weapons used 2017 | Statistic
There have been at least 40 fatal stabbings in Britain already this year - a rate of one every 1.7 days - as police chiefs warn the country's knife crime crisis has become a national emergency...
...With at least 40 victims as of this morning, Britain is averaging one fatal stabbing every 1.7 days - with the youngest victim, Jaden Moodie, aged just 14 when he was knifed in Leyton, east London, in February...
...Last October, new figures from the Office for National Statistics found that knife crime had hit a new record in England and Wales, with 39,332 offences, an annual increase of 12 per cent in the year to June 2018.
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Murder - number of victims by weapons used 2017 | Statistic
There have been at least 40 fatal stabbings in Britain already this year - a rate of one every 1.7 days - as police chiefs warn the country's knife crime crisis has become a national emergency...
...With at least 40 victims as of this morning, Britain is averaging one fatal stabbing every 1.7 days - with the youngest victim, Jaden Moodie, aged just 14 when he was knifed in Leyton, east London, in February...
...Last October, new figures from the Office for National Statistics found that knife crime had hit a new record in England and Wales, with 39,332 offences, an annual increase of 12 per cent in the year to June 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
