Violent Crime - Page 5

Labour’s David Lammy MP launched into a furious tirade against a Government anti-knife campaign being rolled out in chicken shops, suggesting it plays into racist tropes about black people. 

A police officer is in critical condition after a “sudden and brutal” machete attack in Leyton, east London.

A sizeable portion of Nevada’s incarcerated population is in the United States illegally, including about 150 who have been convicted of murder, a local investigation finds.

The Detroit News said Trump’s Baltimore tweets should move Democrats at the debates to talk about urban decay in the city and across the U.S.

Senior doctors in the Welsh capital of Cardiff have reported a rise in “punishment stabbings” designed to maim their victims, and that they are dealing with knife wounds almost every week.

Police officers in London have arrested five people after a fight at a Battersea hotel ended with a car being ploughed into several people outside, injuring seven.

Violent crime has spiked to 20 year highs since Mean Little Mayor Pete Buttitgieg became South Bend, Indiana’s mayor in 2012, reports the Washington Free Beacon.

Last year, 80 per cent of British police officers were physically attacked whilst on the job, with officers describing assaults including being spat at and bitten, a survey has found.

The unborn baby of a pregnant woman stabbed to death at her home in Croydon, south London, is in critical condition after being delivered by emergency services at the murder scene.

An elderly donkey which gave children rides around London’s Blackheath for two decades has been stabbed as part of what his owner suspects was a “sickening gang initiation”.

Following a wave of explosions and acts of violence in the city, the local government in the city of Malmö, Sweden has sent out tips to workers on how to avoid the violence.

A 38-year-old man has been stabbed to death after a fight in a London neighbourhood that one witness described as a “full-on battle”.

The first day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to Sadiq Khan’s London was marked by seven “major incidents” including a shooting, multiple stabbings, and a knifeman roving through Gatwick Airport.

Organised crime is killing more British, citizens than war, terrorism and natural disasters combined according to a new report by the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Almost 500 knives have been seized from people in London’s primary family court in just a four-month period, according to the President of the Family Division.

A French teen and his friends were brutally attacked by several men in the commune of Fécamp after the young man was recognized as being the son of a local police officer by one of the attackers.

A twelfth arrest has been made in London after a man was stabbed to death in Hackney, represented by Labour’s Diane Abbott in the House of Commons.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent endorsement of giving voting rights to all American citizens who are currently in prison for local, state, and federal crimes would allow some 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists to vote from their jail cells. 

Attempted murders have almost doubled across England and Wales over the last decade, according to a new statistical analysis.

Five members of a London gang have been handed jail sentences for the “extremely violent” kidnapping and torture of a 16-year-old.

A Freedom of Information request by the London Evening Standard has revealed there are an average of 40 knife related incidents every day in the British capital.

The Metropolitan Police are hunting a 6’3″ black male suspect after four people were approached from behind and stabbed, seemingly at random, in the Edmonton area of London.

Knife and other weapons offences in Britain are at their highest level since 2009, according to new statistics, with over a fifth of culprits being under 18.

Another teenager has been stabbed to death in London, as Britain remains in the grip of a violent knife crime epidemic.

A report from Norwegian media has revealed that over the last year, around 70 percent of those convicted for violent crimes in Oslo have been immigrants.

Three Romanian migrants have been imprisoned for beating a man to death with shears and pick-axe handles in the street in Ilford, London.

A moped gang which terrorised its victims with weapons including axes, samurai swords, and so-called “zombie knives” in London has been convicted.

A red flag law and universal background checks failed to stop the Aurora, Illinois, shooting that killed five people Friday.

Police are searching for a half-masked “axeman” who rampaged through a Tesco in south London, chasing terrified customers as they fled the store.

New York Right to Life warns the Reproductive Health Act signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would remove criminal penalties for “acts of violence against a pregnant mother and her child.”

Nine migration-background men have been sentenced for a brutal and unprovoked series of violent assaults involving corrosive substances, described as “homophobic” in the media.

British Transport Police figures have revealed that violent crime on London’s underground has risen by 43 percent in just three years, while the highest increase were weapons offences at 125 percent.

Acid attackers targetted victims including an 11-year-old child and a 72-year-old pensioner in the first few months of 2018 in Cambridgeshire, hitherto more famous for its university colleges and cathedrals than violent crime.

Police in London have seen a weekend of violence, with several knife attack victims fighting for their lives while officers opened a murder probe after a woman was found strangled to death in an apartment in the capital’s east.

A man in Australia fatally stabbed himself after a string of violent incidents including theft of two vehicles, several collisions, and a deadly knife attack.

A man has been stabbed in front of Christmas shoppers on a busy London street in broad daylight, as the capital continues to struggle with rising knife violence.