West Midlands overtakes London to become knife crime capital of UK

The West Midlands has become the knife crime capital of the UK with rates as much as a fifth higher than London. The region overtook the capital in 2020/21, when the rate of knife crime was 18.3 per cent higher at 167 offences per 100,000 of the population to London’s rate of 137 per 100,000. It has since risen to 180 offences per 100,000 of the population compared with London’s 165 per 100,000, making it 8.3 per cent higher than …