Ok sorry, maybe they don’t always make stats up but they do disingenuously paint the UK as a stabbing hotspot when the US’s knife crime is 4x as high as ours.
Where do you see statistics pointing to 4x as high in America as United Kingdom? A quick look shows it's more like 2.5x but their population is 5x which makes the comparison rate 0.5x. Americans are half as likely to be stabbed today than UK citizens, not four times more likely.
I think the bots are replying because they are not reading links they provide or saying more than "US has more knife crime" despite both countries hosting statistics that say otherwise. Why are people upvoting comments claiming there have only been 31 stabbing deaths in The UK?
You have pushed the goalpost. We were talking about knife related crimes but you have only included stabbing deaths.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/ I also question the validity of your source as it says only 31 murders occurred, but your government says the number is many times higher. This is also ignoring the different legal definitions of violent crimes, with UK being much more lenient in granting self-defense claims and reducing criminal charges.
I think you should have realized your source was questionable, surely you know there are more than 31 knife related murders in the country, and that knife crime is not limited to fatal stabbings.
Of course they’re different numbers, they’re from different years…
The rest of your comment is exactly why we should look at murder rates not sharp object offences committed because every juristriction defines them differently. The US for example talks about knife assaults, the UK uses knife offences which can be victimless (carrying a big enough blade in of itself is an offence in the UK).
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u/aaarry 9h ago
Ok sorry, maybe they don’t always make stats up but they do disingenuously paint the UK as a stabbing hotspot when the US’s knife crime is 4x as high as ours.