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Though I feel like a 50% increase is significant enough that this isn’t too bad

Reported knife crime in London. The true number is likely vastly higher than this for all years.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/867687461/cross-stitch-pattern-correlation-does?load_webview=1&bid=QoX4MYi2_sC5bGfDXF4St4_91NYp

U have to extrapolate to get the 2022 results

Op has said this isnt 'knife attacks' just people arrested for having knifes.

Iirc Met Police upped their 'stop and search' policy around then, more people searched on street = more people arrested for having knifes.

That knife edge u see in 2018

> Smashes 10 points in plt.plot()

> plt.show()

> data is beautiful

Come on

What is so beautiful in this representation?

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This is one of those graphs where starting it at zero would really help.

Best part of Wikipedia was reading articles that were actually written clearly and somewhat concisely in order to get a handle on a topic, and then trawl the references for ‘legitimate’ sources to cite for proper work and get deeper explanations as needed. Was like a free cheat code in grad school when the professor felt like mailing it in and focus on pet projects instead of actually doing their job.

Source: personal experience.

anyone know why it was so high suddenly?

Quickly before a politician says knife crime increased 20 fold from 2015 to 2018.

The line showing homicides by knife would be so close to the base of the graph it would be almost impossible to see. There were 124 homicides in total in London in 2021/22.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/862984/murders-in-london/

In hindsight, there could've also been a line on the graph for homicides by knife. There isn't really data available for attacks involving a knife, as far as I am aware, or at least not data for each year from 2012-2021

So these figures don't represent someone having an injury or killed with a knife. It doesn't even represent a knife being used in an attack.

The vast majority of these offences will be where the police have searched a person (usually in the normal course of dealing with an unrelated crime) and found a knife on their person. In the UK carrying a knife without a reasonable reason is an offence.

Although remove that offensive weapons part, this graph is only knife offences.

The source's definition is 'The number of knife and offensive weapon offences dealt with by the Criminal Justice System (CJS)'.

Now do it with a proper Y axis.

Sorry, the title should be Knife crime in London from 2012 to 2021*

Can you define "knife crime offences"?

In 2011 or so I created about 100 new articles and edited ten thousand or so. Because reference material was required and I was already in the groove, this was absolutely true for me. I was doing the creating for the project's sake but being in that college mindset sure helped.

Data from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-year-ending-march-2022, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables. Created using Python matplotlib library.

Ah that makes sense. That’s when, according to Wikipedia, Piccolo is a bitch ass n***** from Namek.

Haven’t seen a funny edit like that since