The Guardian filed a freedom of information request with the Home Office to get a picture of knife deaths over the past 40 years. They also upend the narrative that knife deaths are a phenomenon among only black teenagers. While those figures are disproportionate to the population, they still challenge perceptions about young knife deaths. Without the figures the Guardian has obtained we cannot begin to understand what knife crime looks like in England and Wales. What they show, if anything, is that without the data we cannot have a sensible and informed debate about knife crime among young people in the UK.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 17:25 UTC