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  • Gunless UK (knife-enabled crime) to 49,027 offences; this remained lowe

    From Yellowknife@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 06:02:58 2022
    XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, or.politics
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    Police recorded crime data give more insight into lower-volume but higher-
    harm crimes that the survey does not cover or does not capture well.
    Compared with the year ending March 2021 they show:

    the number of homicides increased by 25% to 710 offences; this is a
    similar level to the year ending March 2020 where there were 714 offences
    [note 3]

    a 10% increase in the number of police recorded offences involving knives
    or sharp instruments (knife-enabled crime) to 49,027 offences; this
    remained lower than the year ending March 2020 where there were 55,078 offences.

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bullet ins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2022


    In 2020, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC.
    That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides, along with three other,
    less common types of gun-related deaths tracked by the CDC: those that
    were unintentional, those that involved law enforcement and those whose circumstances could not be determined. The total excludes deaths in which gunshot injuries played a contributing, but not principal, role. (CDC
    fatality statistics are based on information contained in official death certificates, which identify a single cause of death.)

    What share of U.S. gun deaths are murders and what share are suicides?
    Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. In 2020,
    54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (24,292), while
    43% were murders (19,384), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths
    that year were unintentional (535), involved law enforcement (611) or had undetermined circumstances (400).


    https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about- gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

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