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Knife crime numbers.
-How it
stacks up. “
31% 61%
11 to 16 year olds in school Young people excluded from said they had carried a knife school said they had carried at some point in the previous a knife at some point in the year. previous year.
Carrying a knife does not mean much. It could be someone going fishing and it could have just been once.
21%
Young people excluded from school said they had threatened someone with a knife.
20%
16 year old boys said they had attacked someone, with or without a knife.
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44,500
In one year there were more than 44,500 cases recorded of people being stabbed
16,000 to 17,000 robbery offences recorded every year involving knives
17,000
5,000
Recorded hospital admissions for stabbing run at approximately 5,000 a year
In one year police recorded 3000 threats to kill with a knife and over 400 rape and sexual assault cases involving knifes.
3,000
385
From Jan 2018 – May 2019 385 people have been murdered with a knife each year in England and Wales