Data from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-year-ending-march-2022, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables. Created using Python matplotlib library.

Can you define "knife crime offences"?

Sorry, the title should be Knife crime in London from 2012 to 2021*

Now do it with a proper Y axis.

The source's definition is 'The number of knife and offensive weapon offences dealt with by the Criminal Justice System (CJS)'.

Although remove that offensive weapons part, this graph is only knife offences.

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.

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

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/

Quickly before a politician says knife crime increased 20 fold from 2015 to 2018.

anyone know why it was so high suddenly?

This is one of those graphs where starting it at zero would really help.

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What is so beautiful in this representation?

> Smashes 10 points in plt.plot()

> plt.show()

> data is beautiful

Come on

That knife edge u see in 2018

Op has said this isnt 'knife attacks' just people arrested for having knifes.

Iirc Met Police upped their 'stop and search' policy around then, more people searched on street = more people arrested for having knifes.

U have to extrapolate to get the 2022 results

Reported knife crime in London. The true number is likely vastly higher than this for all years.

Though I feel like a 50% increase is significant enough that this isn’t too bad

So pandemic lockdown reduced crime.

Yes, and the number of knives found friends greatly in the number of times police look for them.

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Doesn't every Englishman have to, by law, have a longbow? What are the numbers for crimes done with bow and arrows?

When people ask, "how are you doing?", They don't really mean that they are willing to hear about your getting stabbed or cut. It's not proper.

Oh yes thank you

Never. The Tories obviously ruined the UK recently.

As a hopelessly uninformed American, I have seen all I need to see. Nuance is for weak men who poor the milk before the hot water. The day in 1979, when Thatcher took office is a day that will live in infamy eternal.

Boris Johnson was clearly part of the whole thing. Everything would have been different, if only Labour was in power. (People everywhere would stop othering their fellow human being, if only the other wasn’t empowered).

Not necessarily. It could just as easily be argued that pandemic lockdown simply reduced the number of random searches conducted.

Notice how the chart starts at 10,000 offences already as it’s baseline?

Is there any way to filter out posts like this and only get the beautiful data on my feed? Not only is this visually stale, the data itself is uninteresting.

lmao did you just make a shitty plot from 10 data points and then posted it on data is beautiful?

Also 2019 sucked. I was stabbing people like crazy.