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Available sources do not provide a single, directly comparable "per capita knife homicide rate" for the United States in the same format as for Canada, England & Wales or the UK; however, Office for N...
The available materials do not supply a definitive percentage of Londoners who identified as Muslim in 2025; no source in the provided set reports a direct London share. The strongest concrete datapoi...
The available 2024 data and related analyses consistently indicate that among U.S. racial groups in the provided materials. Multiple datasets and summaries—covering sentencing records, lifetime preval...
The materials provided do not contain a direct statement of the UK (or England and Wales) recorded rape rate per 100,000 population for 2020–2024; instead they supply for financial years and survey pr...
The analyses consistently identify , reported at 4.7 sexual crimes per 1,000 people, with following closely in published region-level figures . National survey releases from the Office for National St...
The most recent, directly cited UK official figures show low prosecution rates and substantial case closures for sexual offences: a and for the year ending March 2025, with . Independent and regional ...
Violent crime in the UK since 2010 presents a mixed picture: homicide rates have generally fallen or stabilised at lower levels compared with earlier decades, while measures of non-lethal violent crim...
Over the last two decades the United States has trailed peer Anglophone countries — especially Australia and Canada — in life expectancy, with studies finding the U.S. the worst performer among six hi...
London’s recorded violent crime rose to about 252,545 offences for 2023/24, part of a longer-term upward trend from a 2015/16 low of 186,488 (Statista/ONS data) . Borough-level counts and recent repor...
Official statistics on “migrant-related crimes” in the UK are fragmented: government datasets publish figures for foreign-national offenders in prisons and for police-recorded crimes and court outcome...
Recent public datasets show police-recorded sexual violence and rape offences across the EU have risen substantially over the last decade, but the rise in recorded offences does not map directly onto ...
The 2021 Census records roughly 3.9 million people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales, up from about 2.7 million in 2011 — an increase of around 44% and a rise in share from roughly 4.8–5.0% t...
Police-recorded religious hate crimes show Muslims are a prominent target: police data cited in reporting put 42–45% of recorded religious hate offences against Muslims (3,459 offences) in the year co...
Sadiq Khan has not publicly endorsed Sharia law; instead he and his office have repeatedly rejected claims that he advocates imposing Sharia in London, calling such assertions “bigoted,” “racist” or “...
The 2011 Census recorded that 21.8% of Birmingham residents identified themselves as Muslim, a figure reported in multiple local and research sources . That proportion—equivalent to about 233,923 peop...
Short answer: No single, universally accepted figure exists, but multiple population-based studies and reviews find that only a small share of violent crimes are directly attributable to non–substance...
The most recent official and sector figures show police-recorded child abuse and child sexual abuse/exploitation (CSAE) offences at historically high levels: 26,299 police-recorded child cruelty/abuse...
Manchester’s Muslim population rose markedly between the 2011 and 2021 censuses: the city recorded 122,962 residents identifying as Muslim in 2021, a net increase of 43,690 people compared with 2011, ...
A long-running contested thread in British public life has been whether local councils should fund or partner with Sharia mediation bodies, producing Parliamentary evidence gathering, a government-com...
Recent regional shifts in UK crime rates are driven less by a simple immigration story than by a bundle of measurable forces: changing police recording and enforcement priorities, local economic condi...