Bill Bratton, the former police chief who brought crime under control in New York, has urged British leaders to get a grip on knife crime with a return to “bobbies on the beat”.
Six members of the MS-13 gang are accused of butchering a Massachusetts teenager with a knife as if they were “chopping wood.”
This year is likely to be the worst in nearly a decade for children killed by knife attacks, with 35 already murdered in 2018.
A woman’s flatulence while waiting in line at a Florida dollar store led to her arrest after she allegedly pulled a knife on a store patron who complained about her passing gas.
LONDON (AP) – Officials say a man has been arrested after a British Transport Police officer was stabbed outside a train station in east London.
The number of children admitted to hospital with stabbing injuries has increased 86 per cent in England since 2014, National Health Service (NHS) statistics have revealed, as the country battled a steep rise in knife crime.
A woman was struck over the head with a machete less than four hours after another woman was stabbed to death in south-east London as a violent crime wave in the capital continues.
Ministers have ruled out dropping the “reasonable grounds” requirement for stop and search following left-wing outcry that the tactic is “racist”, despite police pleas to widen the powers.
A family from Romania have left Britain after one of them was murdered in Sadiq Khan’s London, saying the city is “too dangerous”.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told London police to get knife crime under control after five fatal stabbings in less than a week, instructing the Met to make “full use” of police powers, including increasing stop and search.
London Children are most at risk of being stabbed as they leave school, new research indicates, prompting calls for new measures to protect youngsters.
London police have launched their fifth murder investigation in a week, after a 16-year-old boy died in a suspected stabbing, and extra officers were taken off leave and deployed to the streets.
Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that it could take a decade to solve London’s knife crime epidemic after the capital saw its fourth stabbing in five days.
A 17-year-old teen has been slain outside a busy London Underground station just hours after a 15-year-old boy was killed just yards from his home as London’s violent crime wave continues.
Children as young as nine are carrying knives and 69,000 a year are wounded by blades as areas turn into a “Wild West” thanks to the UK’s violent crime wave, a senior police officer has said.
Armed police stormed Sony’s London headquarters today after a ‘bloody knife fight’ broke out between kitchen staff in the building’s canteen, according to reports.
A violent London gang which terrorised businesses with a fake handgun, hammer, and samurai sword in a campaign of “frightening armed robberies” has been jailed.
A woman wielding a kitchen knife stabbed at least 14 children at a Kindergarten in Chongqing in central China, local police revealed on Friday.
Knife crime in England and Wales soared in the same year that stop and search by police fell to its lowest, according to statistics.
A teenager has been stabbed to death in South London on Monday evening in suspected gang-related “hit.”
The number of patients with life-threatening stabbing injuries being seen by specialist trauma doctors at hospitals across England has risen by 34 percent in just two years, according to NHS figures seen by The Guardian.
A migrant from Lebanon with a long record of convictions has been arrested for murder after being released from prison following appeals against a prior conviction.
A massive street brawl involving around 30 youths in Birmingham city centre has left three people with knife injuries and police hunting 22 suspects.
There has been mass panic and a “stampede” after a man was stabbed in broad daylight on a London train, by an attacker allegedly screaming “I will kill you” whilst brandishing a 12-inch blade.
A man travelling on a busy London Underground train was “stabbed in the face” in front of shocked passengers late on Saturday night.
A teenager has died and two more injured after a deadly shooting in east London, sparking a murder probe and continuing London’s bloody crime wave.
Small businesses have warned against “knee-jerk” legislation as the latest government figures reveal knife crime at its highest level since 2010.
Attacks against police officers are increasing amid a violent crime wave in Great Britain, with six officers injured in one force area over a three-day period.
LONDON (AP) – British police say a man suffered minor injuries when a woman wielding a foot-long (30 centimetres) knife chased passers-by through a northern England town centre.
A young woman in East London has been gunned down in broad daylight as the capital’s violent crime epidemic rolls on.
The Home Secretary is pushing to significantly expand police ‘stop and search’ after Theresa May rolled back the practice before a dramatic rise in violent crime.
More than 130 people were arrested on the opening day of the London Notting Hill carnival, police said, reporting that knife-wielding thugs, drug dealers, and sex attackers had descended on its traditionally peaceful ‘family day’.
A man has been stabbed to death in front of an anti-knife crime poster in South London as the capital’s violent crime wave rolls on..
A suspect was arrested Monday morning after a woman in her sixties was stabbed as she walked past a children’s playground and a woman in her fifties was stabbed, in two incidents in East London.
London police have secured extra stop and search powers and deployed knife detection arches and extra armed officers equipped with acid attack kits for the Notting Hill Carnival, as homes and shops in the area board up fearing damage.
Yusuf Aka has received a short prison sentence for his knife rampage at a hospital in multicultural Leicester.
Suspected violent criminals under investigation are being released without bail conditions by British police, with the use of bail down 90 percent in a year.
A balaclava-wearing, machete-wielding thug has been left with serious head injuries after being mowed down by a speeding car as he chased down a rival with the sword-like weapon.
A major new study suggests that England’s violent crime wave is even worse than headline figures suggest and that the country would have seen up to 1,656 more deaths to homicide and serious injury without advances in trauma care.
The UK’s Statistical Authority (UKSA) has rebuked London Mayor Sadiq Khan for misleadingly using figures in an attempt to play down London’s violent crime wave.
