• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    The UK has the joint lowest levels of knife homicide in the world.

    (Tied with Monaco at 0.08 per 100k people)

    Source: United Nations Global Study on Homicide

    Knife attacks in the UK are so low that when it does happen, it makes national news, which paradoxically leads to the impression of knife crime being very high.

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      Yes and the attackers now use acid and other stablery. That don’t end up in statistics so UK people can show how great everything is.

      London feels like straight out of 1984, cameras everywhere. Biggest ew imaginable.

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        You’re now spinning the UK having the lowest knife violence rate as a bad thing somehow, and that it’s a part of a UK conspiracy to make the UK look good lol.

        “UK people” are called Brits, btw, and I’m not one of them.

        All major cities have a lot of cameras. London is one of those hundreds of cities that do. Shops having CCTV is not “muh literally 1984”.

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          No i say it doesn’t work and is just 1984. Most cities in normal countries don’t have cameras at every street corner. The fact that you UK people defend that behavior is seriously dangerous behavior

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            It doesn’t work except it does, as the UK has low levels of violent crime, and very low levels of knife crime.

            Cameras at every street corner? What are you on about? I think you’ve been watching too many conspiracy theorist YouTubers.

            Germany has a higher rate of the police CCTV requests than the UK does. So if the UK is literally 1984, then Germany is even worse, no?

            Again, people from the UK are called Brits. And I am not British. Do you call Germans “Germany people”?

            Having the lowest knife attack rate on the planet is “seriously dangerous behaviour”? Ok then lol.

            Chill the xenophobia.