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London murder rate 2018 – how many murders have there been so far & which city has the world’s highest murder rate?
LONDON is experiencing a rise in violent crime, with 100 suspected murders in the capital since the start of the year.
It meant, for the first time, that London's homicide rate momentarily overtook that of New York which has the virtually same population numbers.
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What is London's murder rate and when did it overtake New York?
The London murder rate has hit 131 in 2018 so far.
The latest killing was a man who was shot dead in Enfield on December 18.
There were 116 murders in the capital during the whole of 2017.
In that year New York had 286 - but that was its lowest since the 1950s.
In 2018, NYC celebrated its or shooting in decades.
Shootings are down two per cent on 2017.
The city recorded 147 murders between January 1 and June 30, police data shows.
During the same period London had 70 - less than half.
This means that the NYC figures are higher than London.
However, at the beginning of 2018 it was reported that the crimewave in the UK capital was higher than the American city.
The total number of offences involving a knife or bladed instrument that were recorded by cops in London in the year to March 2018 rose to 40,147, a seven-year-high.
But the Big Apple rate decreased from the end of January to March as London's rose.
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Fifteen people were murdered in London in February, compared to 11 in New York.
The number of London murders for March also beat New York's with 23 and 21 respectively - 13 of those in the UK capital coming in just 19 days.
When the statistics are weighted for population, the rate of murders per 100,000 people was higher in London than in New York in February and March.
The total number of London murders, excluding victims of terrorism, has shot up by 38 per cent since 2014.
FBI data and studies by the University of California, show that since 1800 London has had a murder rate per person of between half and a 20th of New York’s.
Looking at 2017, the homicide rate per 100,000 population stood at 1.2 in London and 3.4 in New York.
At the height of the city's crack cocaine epidemic in 1990, New York's annual murder rate peaked at 2,605 killings.
Fresh figures show killings in Britain have risen to a ten-year high.
What are some of the murders being investigated by the Met Police?
- Kyall Parnall, 17, stabbed: Lambeth
- Steve Frank Navarez-Jara, 20, stabbed: Islington
- Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, stabbed: Redbridge
- Vijay Patel, 49, head injury: Barnet
- Daniel Frederick, 34, stabbed: Hackney
- Oluwadamilola Odeyingbo, 18, post-mortem awaits: Bromley
- Harry Uzoka, 25, stabbed: Hammersmith & Fulham
- Seyed Azim Khan, head injury: Redbridge
- Yaya Mbye, 26, stabbed: Hackney
- Juan Olmos-Saca, 39, stabbed: Southwark
- Lily-Mai Saint George, 11-weeks-old, post-mortem awaits: Haringey
- Khader Saleh, 25, stabbed: Hammersmith & Fulham
- Hassan Ozcan, 19, stabbed: Barking & Dagenham
- Kwabena Nelson, 22, stabbed: Haringey
- Hannah Leonard, 55, stabbed: Camden
- Sabri Chibani, 19, stabbed: Lambeth
- Bulent Kabala, 41, shot: Barnet
- Saeeda Hussain, 54, stabbed: Redbridge
- Lord Promise Nkenda, 17, stabbed: Newham
- Mark Smith, 48, multiple injuries: Waltham Forest
- Lewis Blackman, 19, stabbed: Kensington & Chelsea
- Jozef Boci, 33, blunt force trauma injury to the head and face: Greenwich
- Rotimi Oshibanjo, 26, stabbed: Ealing
- Sadiq Mohammed, 20, stabbed: Camden
- Abdikarim Hassan, 17, stabbed: Camden
- Amir Ellouzi, 24, shot: Westminster
- Michael Boyle, 44, stabbed: Southwark
- Christopher Beaumont, 42, stabbed: Hammersmith & Fulham
- Laura Figueira, 47, stabbed: Richmond
- Two bodies found in Sussex
- Kelva Smith, 20, stabbed: Croydon
- Kelvin Odunuyi, 19, shot: Haringey
- Julian Joseph, 36, head injury: Lewisham
- Nikolai Glushkov, 68, compression of neck: Kingston
- Joseph Williams-Torres, 20, shot: Waltham Forest
- Lyndon Davis, 18, stabbed: Havering
- Hersi Hersi, 36, stabbed: Hounslow
- Russell Jones, 23, stabbed: Enfield
- Tyrone Silcott, 41, stabbed: Hackney
- Balbir Johal, 48, stabbed: Ealing
- Jermaine Johnson, 41, stabbed: Waltham Forest
- Benjamin Pieknyi, 21, stabbed: Newham
- Abraham Badru, 26, shot: Hackney
- Awaiting formal ID, 59, skull fracture: Barking & Dagenham
- David Potter, 50, stabbed: Wandsworth
- Reece Tshoma, 23, stabbed: Greenwich
- Leyla Mtumwa, 36, stabbed: Haringey
- Devoy Stapleton, 20, stabbed: Wandsworth
- Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, 17, shot: Haringey
- Amaan Shakoor, 16, shot: Waltham Forest
- Awaiting formal ID, female, 80, post-mortem awaits: Camden
- Henry Vincent, 37, stabbed: Lewisham
- Babatunde Akintayo Awofeso, 53, post-mortem awaits: Hackney
- Israel Ogunsola, 18, stabbed: Hackney
- Raul Nicolaie, 26, stabbed: Colindale
- Samantha Clarke, 38, stabbed: Brixton
- Sami Sidhom, 18, stabbed: Forest Gate
- Aaron Springett, 32, blunt force trauma to the chest: Morden
- Awaiting formal ID, 20, stabbed: Finsbury Park
- Awaiting formal ID, 30s, shot, Queensbury Tube station
- Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, shot, Kennington
- Rosina Coleman, 85, was found beaten to death at her Romford home
- Arunesh Thangarajah, 28, stabbed in Mitcham, South London
- Marcel Campbell, 20, stabbed in Islington, North London
- Katerina Makunova, 17, stabbed in Camberwell, South London
- Unidentified man, 18, who police found stabbed on Denmark Road in Lambeth and he died later in hospital
- Simonne Kerr, 31, was stabbed to death in her home in Battersea, south-west London
- Unidentified man, 42, stabbed to death in Waltham Forest, East London
- Carole Harrison, 73, was found dead inside her house in Teddington, South West London following a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday
- Gary Amer, 63, stabbed to death at a property in Walworth, south-east London
- Shevaun Sorrell, 22, was found unresponsive in Creek Road, Deptford
- Abdi Ali, 18, died from a blunt force trauma to the head and stab wounds to the chest
- Celia Levitt, 68, was killed at a residential address in Bromley
- Ismail Tanrikulu, 22, was found with gunshot wounds in Tottenham Cemetery
- Memunatu Warne, 46, died after a suspected arson attack at a property in Woolwich
- Ali Al Har, 25, stabbed to death in Tufnell Park
- Kanagusabi Ramathan, 76, found dead at a residential address in Newham
- Elyon Poku, 20, was stabbed during a party in Stamford Hill, north London
- Guled Farah, 19, was killed in a drive-by-shooting in Walthamstow
- Sandra Zmijan, 32, died after being hit repeatedly by a heavy blunt object
- Hashim Abdalla Ali, 22, was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a car in Hillingdon, west London
- Moses Mayele, 23, was stabbed outside his home in Hainault, east London
- Ian Tomlin, 46, was killed outside flats in Battersea
- Nazia Ali, 25, was found dead at a residential address in Tower Hamlets
- Ethan Nedd-Bruce, 18, was found with stab injuries and was pronounced dead
- Sheiku Adams, 49, fell from a third-floor flat
- Martin Welsh, 43, was stabbed at his home in Hendon, north London
- Rocky Djelal, 38, stabbed in Southwark Park
- Jay Hughes, 15, died of a single stab wound to the heart after he was attacked at a chicken shop
- Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, was stabbed outside Clapham South Underground station
- Ayodeji Habeeb Azeez, 22, was found on Samos Road in Anerley, south London
- John Ogunjobi, 16, was found seriously injured on Greenleaf Close, Tulse Hill
- Tanseen Sheikh, 62, was found dead at an address in Balham, south-west London
- Devi Unmathallegadoo, 35, was shot with a crossbow while eight months pregnant in Ilford, east London
- Unidentified woman, 89, was found dead at an address in Ealing, west London
- Maureen Watkins, 75, was found with multiple stab wounds
- Carl Whitehead, 58, was found dead at an address in Teddington, south-west London
- Zakaria Bukar Sharif Ali, 26, was stabbed on Kingsland Road in Dalston
- Maureen Whale, 77, died of a heart attack after two men ransacked her home
- Aron Walker, 18, was stabbed in Prior Street, Greenwich
- Jay Sewell, 18, died in hospital from stab wounds.
- Unnamed man, gunned down in Enfield, North London
Which city has the highest murder rate in the world?
The city of Los Cabos in Mexico has the highest murder rate in the world, with 113.3 killings per 100,000 people recorded in 2017.
The murder rate in the municipality, at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, has tripled in a year — with 560 deaths, up from 192 in 2016.
This gives it a ratio of 113.3 per 100,000 residents.
Caracas, in Venezuela, is the second most violent city in the world with 111.19 per 100,000 in the same year.
The UK’s murder rate was 0.92 per 100,000 in a 2014 UN study.
The average global homicide rate was 7.6.
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Why has the murder rate increased in London?
The exact reason for the rise in killings is unclear.
In 2007, there were 496 homicides in New York - three times more than in London.
Last year, there were 130 murders in London, compared with 292 in the Big Apple.
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What about the crime rate in the UK as a whole?
Excluding those killed in terror attacks including London Bridge, Westminster and Manchester, there was still a 12 per cent rise in murders - the highest numbers in a decade.
The total number of offences involving a knife or bladed instrument that have been recorded by cops in the year to March 2018 rose to 40,147, a seven-year-high.
There was also a two per cent spike in the number of gun-related crimes too - that is now at 6,492.
The figures revealed there was a 30 per cent rise in robberies to 77,103 last year, combined with a six per cent hike in burglaries too - to 437,537.
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