The_DADDY Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Statistics place the county only one ranking behind London, when the figures are taken as incidents per head of population, The figures are included in a report which looked at 25 police force areas in England and Wales. They are drawn from statistics recorded by forces including the Metropolitan Police, as well as South Yorkshire Police, and other forces up and down the country. And they have been included in a report by the security company Churchill Support Services. It ranks South Yorkshire as fourth in England and Wales, with a knife crime rate of 11.7 Per 10,000 people. Describing South Yorkshire as a highly urban area, it adds: “South Yorkshire is home to the towns and cities of Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster. The region has a total knife crime count of 1,629, which correlates to a worryingly high rate of 11.7 offences per 10,000 people. Further compounding this is the unflinching nature of knife crime in the area, which saw a zero per cent change from the last year.” https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/knife-crime-report-places-south-yorkshire-among-worst-hot-spots-in-england-and-wales-for-knife-crime-4692949 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotequila Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 @The_DADDY Your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delbow Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 "The figures are included in a report which looked at 25 police force areas in England and Wales." The total number of police force areas in England and Wales is 43 Mugged off by clickbait again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_DADDY Posted July 9 Author Share Posted July 9 35 minutes ago, Pyrotequila said: @The_DADDY Your thoughts? I think Sheffield Star is a terrible news paper 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 (edited) Another load of Sheffield Star cherry picking, out of context, sensationalised bull crap based on "report" from a company that just absolutely conicidentally provides security services, access control and CCTV equipment. Funny how they never actually link to the full statistics or give full explanations on the methodology of this stuff. All I can see from actually looking at the figures from the source is that you are statistically far more likely to get stabbed in Cleveland with a population of less than 1/10th size of South Yorkshire than you would be walking down The Moor or around Parson Cross. Edited July 9 by ECCOnoob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 (edited) 7 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said: Another load of Sheffield Star cherry picking, out of context, sensationalised bull crap based on "report" from a company that just absolutely conicidentally provides security services, access control and CCTV equipment. Funny how they never actually link to the full statistics or give full explanations on the methodology of this stuff. All I can see from actually looking at the figures from the source is that you are statistically far more likely to get stabbed in Cleveland with a population of less than 1/10th size of South Yorkshire than you would be walking down The Moor or around Parson Cross. Oh and apparently both said Cleveland and the West Midlands are more dangerous with knife crime in the league table than the Capital despite their combined populations still being more than half that of London... What's the phrase. If it looks like bull... if it smells like bull.... Someone's been doing some clever number crunching. Edited July 9 by ECCOnoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prince al Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 https://www.facebook.com/**********/posts/pfbid0he9EzWDzzgGnagy5JtxuFUTcLrpdsMFAznrzrNCRPeDBmuviSdQ1vprXkFMzStJ9l Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peak4 Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 If anyone's interested in the actual numbers, the stats for Dec 2023, the last full year, are available HERE HMG website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 18 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said: Oh and apparently both said Cleveland and the West Midlands are more dangerous with knife crime in the league table than the Capital despite their combined populations still being more than half that of London... What's the phrase. If it looks like bull... if it smells like bull.... Someone's been doing some clever number crunching. Clever and the Star 😂😂😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peak4 Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 I've provided the link in a previous post, but I do understand that not everyone has access to a spreadsheet program, particularly on a phone. Table 7 of the spreadsheet give offences per 100K of the population, in order to provide a sensible comparison, rather than just total number of offences. I'm not a wizz with Excel, but a quick copy and paste of the data for all last year, sorted by highest number, for the worst 25 is shown below; Don't worry about the Notes References. Police Area Knife offences per 100K population West Midlands [note 2] 180 London [note 13] 165 Metropolitan Police [note 2] 165 Cleveland [note 2] 143 West Midlands 118 South Yorkshire [note 2] 110 West Yorkshire [note 2] 99 Humberside [note 2] 95 Yorkshire and The Humber 92 Merseyside [note 2] 91 ENGLAND (exc. Devon & Cornwall Police and Greater Manchester Police) [note 2, 3, 4] 90 ENGLAND AND WALES (exc. Devon & Cornwall Police and Greater Manchester Police) [note 2, 3, 4] 89 North East 89 Avon and Somerset [note 2] 84 Essex [note 2] 81 Northumbria [note 2] 79 Bedfordshire [note 2] 79 Nottinghamshire [note 2] 74 Northamptonshire [note 2] 73 Leicestershire [note 2] 72 Derbyshire [note 2] 71 Lancashire [note 2] 71 East Midlands 69 North West 68 East 66 Staffordshire [note 2] 64 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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