Script writing - Knife crime Statistics

This numbers table was taken from a government subsidery website clearly presenting the exact figures of knife crime from 1995 to 2008. It shows that the amount of crimes involving knives have sharply fell in the decade and a bit that the numbers cover. Appart from common assault which seems to fluctuate from year to year quite a large ammount. This information is useful for someone writing a documentary about knife crime because it shows clearly, while 1 incident of knife crime is to much, the numbers are getting better and that it is on the decline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036833/Over-half-young-knife-suspects-black-Scotland-Yard-figures-reveal.html

This article is from the (racist) daily mail proclaiming that over half of knife crime is committed by black people. This article would show a writer that even though we live in 2012 there are still media publications that are prepared to try and drum up fear and create stereotypes on these numbers which with one quick look at the dates you can see that these numbers are from a 3 month period in a unnamed location and so is clearly not a fair study.

London knife crime 2010-11

Local authority	Total reported crime	Knife crimes	% of all crime
SOURCE: METROPOLITAN POLICE
Barking & Dagenham	19,149	36	0.19
Barnet	25,670	31	0.12
Bexley	13,754	8	0.06
Brent	29,433	47	0.16
Bromley	22,002	23	0.1
Camden	34,168	26	0.08
Croydon	32,228	67	0.21
Ealing	34,973	54	0.15
Enfield	23,612	47	0.2
Greenwich	24,108	40	0.17
Hackney	27,999	68	0.24
Hammersmith & Fulham	24,147	34	0.14
Haringey	24,584	76	0.31
Harrow	14,956	25	0.17
Havering	17,575	29	0.17
Hillingdon	23,738	19	0.08
Hounslow	23,855	24	0.1
Islington	28,079	64	0.23
Kensington & Chelsea	21,136	16	0.08
Kingston upon Thames	11,144	11	0.1
Lambeth	35,636	93	0.26
Lewisham	28,864	60	0.21
Merton	14,716	27	0.18
Newham	34,338	74	0.22
Redbridge	24,486	27	0.11
Richmond Upon Thames	11,727	9	0.08
Southwark	36,196	78	0.22
Sutton	12,416	28	0.23
Tower Hamlets	28,579	38	0.13
Waltham Forest	27,525	37	0.13
Wandsworth	24,713	37	0.15
Westminster	63,934	39	0.06

This chart shows that knife crime in London inst even nearly as bad as it is portrayed to be within the media. In not one borough of London did knife crime contribute to even 0.5% of all crime committed in those particular borough's. Again proving to the anyone analyzing this data that knife crime is being blown hugely out of proportion.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/youngpeople/crimeandjustice/typesofcrime/dg_172800

This article hosted on the government website is a much more useful article that clearly explains the laws with knives. Instead of drumming up fear that every man woman and child on the streets of England are carrying knives perhaps our esteemed national publications could educate the population such as this article does.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421534.stm

This article has a slightly more realistic opinion on kinfe crime and is a lot less biased that the previous examples. It is a little fairer and level headed and actually seems to be a sensible approach towards the topic of knife crime with out blowing it way out of proportion.