Thank goodness none of the victims were shot!The data, released under the Freedom of Information Act, shows police forces in England and Wales recorded 277 knife murders in the 12 months to April 2008.
If confirmed, the figures, which were obtained by the Conservative party, will be the highest since records began 30 years ago and represent a rise of 38% since 1999. [More]
[Via Jeffersonian]
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It's a false metric anyway. The useful information is the murder rate (hint: it's not just the numbers of murders per year), and the number of individuals committing that crime.
I haven't dug into the Home Office stats in a while, but I seriously doubt that the murder rate has gone up.
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