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The best publicly reported figures indicate UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications (about “more than 30 arrests a day”) based on custody data compiled by Th...
Available sources show frequent reporting that thousands of people were arrested in the UK for online communications in recent years — with repeated figures of “about 12,000 arrests a year” or “over 3...
Yes: multiple recent reports and parliamentary records show thousands of arrests in the UK for online communications described as “offensive” or otherwise criminal under communications laws, with repo...
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...
Available reporting from media outlets and aggregators shows a range of estimates for arrests in the UK tied to online speech in 2024: major compilations reported roughly 9,700 arrests based on data f...
Available evidence does not support a simple claim that immigration is the main driver of rising crime in the UK; academic reviews and UK-focused briefings find mixed or weak links and emphasise data ...
Knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales rose to 262 in the year ending March 2024, up 8% from the prior year, and they accounted for 46% of the 570 homicides in 2023/24 (ONS/Home Office reporting...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
Available official data show the proportion of reported rape offences that reach charge/summons is very low (about 2.8% in the year ending March 2025) and conviction rates for prosecutions vary by dat...
The evidence on the demographics of convicted “grooming gang” members in the UK is contested: some studies and high-profile prosecutions report a noticeable in certain types of group-based child sexua...
The available investigations confirm that group-based sexual exploitation and "grooming gangs" have occurred in the UK and that institutional failures allowed abuse to continue in high-profile cases; ...
Available official data show non-UK nationals made up 12.4% of the prison population in June 2025 and around 13% of cautions and convictions in 2024, while detailed breakdowns by immigration status, l...
The claim that "the UK is protecting Muslim rape gangs" overstates the evidence: multiple official and investigative reports document by police and agencies to prevent and properly investigate group-b...
Available reporting shows no official UK-wide statistic that “most male rapes in Britain” are committed by immigrants; government agencies say they do not hold comprehensive data on perpetrators’ immi...
Estimates of the number of people in the UK without legal immigration status vary widely; reputable recent analyses place the range at roughly 700,000–900,000 after corrections to an earlier Pew figur...
Publicly available analyses find that, overall, foreign nationals in England and Wales are imprisoned or convicted at roughly similar rates to British nationals once the younger age profile of many mi...
Police-recorded rape in England and Wales reached roughly 70–71 thousand offences in 2024 according to official datasets and widely‑cited compilations, but headline police counts and charity prevalenc...
Reporting by The Times and parliamentary materials put UK arrests for certain online communications at about 12,000 in 2023 — roughly “more than 30 arrests a day” — a figure reproduced across media an...
Available official and independent sources do not provide a clean, comparable “crime rate” for Somali migrants in England; Home Office FOI records reportedly lacked nation-by-nation conviction totals ...
Recent Home Office police-recorded hate crime data for England and Wales show overall hate crimes rose modestly to 115,990 in the year ending March 2025 (excluding Metropolitan Police data), while oth...