Violent Crime - Page 7

“High-harm” violent offences involving weapons are soaring in England and Wales, as a crime wave continues, with knife and gun crime, as well as homicide, shooting up.

Over half of people in the United Kingdom believe the police have lost control of the streets, a shock poll commissioned by a national newspaper has revealed.

A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in broad daylight on Thursday in South London.

A Miami tourist with no arms stabbed a tourist with a pair of scissors using only his feet on Tuesday shortly after midnight, police said.

A 37-year-old man was the victim of a brutal attack Friday night in a Paris suburb when several people robbed him of his phone and ripped out four of his gold teeth.

Three people have died and several more were wounded after a gunman fired at a crowd of people in one of the main shopping streets in central Malmö.

Three people, including a 17-year-old, were violently stabbed over a two-hour period on Sunday in another day of violence for the British capital under Mayor Sadiq Khan.

London Police dealt with an average of 60 moped muggings a day last year, a 50 per cent surge in this form of crime in just one year under Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Soaring knife and gun violence in Sadiq Khan’s London has made many teenagers ‘too scared to leave the house’, a community meeting in Hackney has heard.

French police have arrested three people after an African migrant drug dealer was beaten to death in broad daylight by a gang of teenagers in southern France.

The nephew of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has admitted taking a four-inch knife to a London nightclub following the royal wedding as he was fearful of rocketing levels of violent crime in the capital.

Sadiq Khan’s London has seen an “appalling escalation” of serious crimes including murder, violent robbery and home burglary in the last year, according to new police data.

A gang of hooded thugs has “slashed” a 17-year-old boy with a sword as walked home from college in east London.

Nearly 40 people were shot during the first three days of this week in gun-controlled Chicago. The wounded included a 15-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, while the deceased included a 21-year-old mother.

A 52-year-old French man was found dead in Val-d’Oise one month after he had been subjected to a random attack where criminals robbed him and set fire to his car with the man still inside.

There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.

London’s crime wave will develop into “carnage” come summer, a leading trauma surgeon has predicted, warning shocking levels of violence in the capital is “the new normal”.

Recorded machete attacks in the UK have shot up by nearly five times in just three years, with the majority in the capital, London.

LONDON (AP) — London police have shot and killed a man after he reportedly claimed he had a weapon.

“Political correctness has directly led to the murder rate going up in London,” former UKIP leader and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nigel Farage has argued.

Officials have admitted that 63 violent criminals, including rapists and murderers, were released from maximum security prisons straight onto Britain’s streets last year.

A shopkeeper who witnessed a mass brawl which ended with one teenager being stabbed multiple times and another having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in multicultural Birmingham said he was “used to” such scenes.

The son of a Nigerian politician has been shot dead outside his home in London over the weekend, becoming the tenth murdered victim of the ‘gun free’ city’s violent crime wave in just 12 days.

Newly released crime statistics from the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) show the number of fatal acts of violence in 2017 to be the highest ever recorded by the agency while the number of rapes has also continued to rise.

Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.

The UK’s surge in recorded violent and sexual crime, including knife attacks, has accelerated at a faster rate than previously thought over the past year, new police statistics reveal.

A study conducted by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has found a direct correlation between the mass influx of migrants during the migrant crisis and the rising level of violent crime in Germany.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to “spend less time grandstanding” about U.S. President Donald Trump and “more time tackling epidemic levels of knife crime in London”.

Swedish criminology professor Jerzy Sarnecki claims that Sweden has seen a “sharp increase” in violent crime in recent years and the lack of resources for police could exasperate the problem.

Nearly 500 criminal illegal aliens were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a four-day operation in sanctuary city jurisdictions, which shield illegal aliens from deportation.

Violent crime is up across the country, but in some pockets of California, violent offenses — including murder, rape, robbery and assault — are up twice the national average, according to an FBI report released Monday.

The Chicago Tribune reports that a large portion of the elevated crime numbers came as a result of murder in the Windy City.

Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith claims there are four ways to reduce violent crime–and gun control is not one of them.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions banned sanctuary cities from participating in a federal public safety program.

Crime in England and Wales has seen its largest annual rise in a decade, with violent crime increasing by 18 per cent.

A study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows during the time period 2007 to 2015, the percentage of adults with carry permits rose 190% and violent crime fell by 18%.