Knife crime in London 2015-2025 [OC]

    by Equivalent-Repeat539

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    1. well looks like the next wave is coming to an end.. so that’s nice I guess. I didn’t know they fluctuate like ice ages.

    2. Equivalent-Repeat539 on

      Used Python / Matplotlib for plotting, sources are london met police data from [https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/mps-monthly-crime-dashboard-data-e5n6w](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/mps-monthly-crime-dashboard-data-e5n6w) and ONS population to get per 1000 values [https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/office-for-national-statistics-ons-population-estimates-borough–vd615/](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/office-for-national-statistics-ons-population-estimates-borough–vd615/)

    3. ispeakforengland on

      So according to that first image, middle chart… if we add up the totals of the bars, 140k, 60k and 80k, it means there have been 280k knife crime victims in London in a decade.

      That averages at 76 victims a day.

      That seems high. What constitutes a victim? Is being threatened by a knife wielding mugger a knife crime?

    4. Is Croydon so low because gun crime is more common? How is Hackney not top 3!? /s (kind of)

    5. First pic would be better if showed the victims relative to the total population.

      Also if 1-9 is very low and +25 is low compared to its population size. It’s possible most stabbings are 15-20 and 10-15 and 20-25 are low as well, but we don’t know with that chart.

    6. You can really see how big the difference between south west london is compared to basically everywhere else.

    7. Can you account for population in the London graph? Considering London has over a million more people today than it had in 2015, the graph isn’t giving a great representation of the true incidence rate

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