{"id":12422,"date":"2019-04-15T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=12422"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T10:14:14","slug":"met-detective-predicts-fatal-stabbing-areas-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/met-detective-predicts-fatal-stabbing-areas-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Met detective ‘predicts’ fatal stabbing areas in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

A murder detective believes he has found a way to identify where fatal knife attacks are likely to take place.<\/p>\n

Det Ch Insp John Massey trawled through records of knife crimes in London over a 12-month period and found a link with fatal stabbings the following year. More than two thirds of killing in 2017-18 occurred in neighbourhoods where someone had been attacked with a knife the year before.<\/p>\n

The research by University of Cambridge criminologists, found that during 2016-17 the Metropolitan Police recorded 3,506 knife attacks where the location of the attack had been identified. The stabbings had taken place in 2,048 of London’s 4,835 local neighbourhoods with a population of around 1,700 – smaller than council wards.<\/p>\n

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Knife injuries in 2016-17 by council ward<\/p><\/div>\n

The areas of stabbings were then compared to the known locations of 97 fatal knife attacks in 2017-18. Results showed 67 of the killings occurred where there had been at least one stabbing the previous year.<\/p>\n

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The map displays fatal stabbings during 2017-18<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr Massey said<\/strong>: “These findings indicate that officers can be deployed in a smaller number of areas in the knowledge that they will have the best chances there to prevent knife-enabled homicides.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The study also found 21% of the 590 fatal stabbings in London over a 10 year period were flagged by police as involving gangs. Researchers said the figures “contradict a widespread view that knife-enabled homicides are primarily gang-related”.<\/p>\n

Cdr David Musker<\/strong> said the Met was “always open to reviewing and utilising emerging academic research” and that it supported the Met’s own current research.<\/p>\n

He added:<\/strong> “Any research that can help inform both the short and long-term response to violence is very welcome.<\/p>\n

“We already conduct high-visibility patrols within high-demand areas and hotspots and proactively police high-risk suspects and known offenders as part of our daily policing plans; we also use predictive analytics and mapping to target our patrols and make best use of our resource, prioritising the greatest areas of threat, risk and harm.<\/p>\n

“This is something that the Met, and colleagues across the country, have been developing and utilising to great effect for a number of years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A murder detective believes he has found a way to identify where fatal knife attacks are likely to take place. Det Ch Insp John Massey trawled through records of knife crimes in London over a 12-month period and found a link with fatal stabbings the following year. More than two thirds of killing in 2017-18…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":12426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1054,1055,1056,704,1053,309],"class_list":["post-12422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-fatal-stabbing-areas-in-london","tag-fatal-stabbing","tag-knife-attacks","tag-knife-crime","tag-met-detective-predicts-fatal-stabbing-areas-in-london","tag-metropolitan-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12427,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions\/12427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}