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Knife Crime in London How Bad Is It Really?

Friday, May 24, 2013 10:33

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It seems like there’s always a new stabbing story in the news, but is the picture of knife crime really that grim? We examine knife crime data for each London authority

Only last week a fatal stabbing was reported from the Blackberry BBM party in London, yet data compiled by the Guardian shows that the highest rate of severe knife related crime recorded in the capital in the 2010-2011 financial year is less than 0.5% of total crime for each area.

The highest number of murder knife victims (or otherwise where the weapon used was a “sharp instrument”), for 2010 and 2011 calendar years, was only six – in just two London boroughs.

As the chart below shows, in most London authorities the numbers of such deaths were on average between two and four. That being said, the figures for Southwark, where the stabbing took place just after a Jessie J concert, spiked from no homicide victims of knife crime in 2010 to six in 2011.

In order to paint an accurate picture of seriously injured knife crime victims across London we cross-referenced crime data from the Metropolitan Police’s website with scraped knife crime figures from this freedom of information response also provided by the Met. The merged data shows the percent of severe stabbings in individual boroughs in the financial year 2010-2011.

Haringey recorded the highest rate of seriously injured knife crime victims in London – which was 0.31% of the total levels of crime recorded for the area by the Met. Check the map below to see the rate of severe stabbings in each borough.

Visualised in Many Eyes the same data shows the number of such stabbings by local authority for every month from January 2010 up to December 2011.

Victims of Knife Crime in London 2010-2011

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The full data is below – what can you do with it?

Unlike gunshot victims, hospitals don’t have to report knife related crime. So, the figures below may not paint the complete picture of knife crime across London as they don’t account for unreported incidents.

Data summary

**London knife crime 2010-11**
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Local authority	Total reported crime	Knife crimes	% of all crime
SOURCE: METROPOLITAN POLICE
Barking & Dagenham	19,149	36	0.19
Barnet	25,670	31	0.12
Bexley	13,754	8	0.06
Brent	29,433	47	0.16
Bromley	22,002	23	0.1
Camden	34,168	26	0.08
Croydon	32,228	67	0.21
Ealing	34,973	54	0.15
Enfield	23,612	47	0.2
Greenwich	24,108	40	0.17
Hackney	27,999	68	0.24
Hammersmith & Fulham	24,147	34	0.14
Haringey	24,584	76	0.31
Harrow	14,956	25	0.17
Havering	17,575	29	0.17
Hillingdon	23,738	19	0.08
Hounslow	23,855	24	0.1
Islington	28,079	64	0.23
Kensington & Chelsea	21,136	16	0.08
Kingston upon Thames	11,144	11	0.1
Lambeth	35,636	93	0.26
Lewisham	28,864	60	0.21
Merton	14,716	27	0.18
Newham	34,338	74	0.22
Redbridge	24,486	27	0.11
Richmond Upon Thames	11,727	9	0.08
Southwark	36,196	78	0.22
Sutton	12,416	28	0.23
Tower Hamlets	28,579	38	0.13
Waltham Forest	27,525	37	0.13
Wandsworth	24,713	37	0.15
Westminster	63,934	39	0.06

Source:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2012/apr/12/london-knife-crime

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