Statistics Vs Politics Views

Believe it or not but its true: as a leading Met officer said this week, 'statistically, knife crime remains a rare even'. there are always disputes over crime statistics but there is no sign of boom in knife in the uk. its hard to question these statistics as murders never go unreported. (this shows that in perspective along with statistics, knife crime in the Uk is not a sign of a social epidemic. (www.spiked-online.com)

This being said the public still fear due to the media. For example: New London mayor Boris Johnson has even talked about 'the culture of stabbing', as if it were a endemic among young people in the capital. little wonder that one TV news presenter felt able to pose the rhetorical question, 'Is London the knife capital of the world?' this would most definately put fear into the society and is evidence that the media had blown it all out of proportion with no correlation to the statistics.(www.spiked-onlie.com)

In my own view the talk of London being the murder capital as showing it to be a daily occurance could just as easily cause a self-fufilling prohecy among the teenagers in the Uk