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https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati
by KaiserPro 6y ago
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
For the UK it was a high year, but that's partly because the ONS are counting homicide, which in this case includes the death of 39 people in the back of a lorry in Essex. (https://news.sky.com/story/essex-lorry-deaths-two-men-found-guilty-of-manslaughter-of-39-vietnamese-migrants-12147394 https://news.sky.com/story/essex-lorry-deaths-two-men-found-...)
So its either up 8% including these people in the back of the lorry, or 1% if you exclude it.
nowhere near the 39% quoted in OP.
- Xylakant 6y agoThere are reasons to be extraordinarily careful with these kinds of statistics - for example in germany the statistics are based on when the crime is reported, not when it occurred. We had one spike in germany between 2016-2018 when hundreds of potential cases attributed to a single serial killer entered the statistics. Most of these cases had been committed a decade earlier.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoYour first link only contains data up until March 2020, so would only include 3 of the ~10 months in the original posts data.
- KaiserPro 6y agoGood spot. Alas Its too late to edit or withdraw.