WS More or Less: Why London?s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York?s
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
London?s murder rate is on the rise ? and for the first time ever it has just overtaken New York?s, according to a number of media outlets. But is it true? And is it appropriate for journalists to compare between the two cities? South Africa?s missing children statistics A viral Facebook post has suggested that one child is kidnapped every thirty seconds in South Africa. We examine the evidence which shows that a child is reported missing every nine hours to the police, and this includes more than just kidnappings.
(Photo: Police officers inspect the scene of a knife attack in London. Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. This is your weekly guide to |
| 0:46.1 | the numbers in the news and in life. I'm Charlotte MacDonald. And I'm Kate Lambo. Later in the |
| 0:52.0 | program, we'll be looking into a viral Facebook post |
| 0:54.4 | which claimed that a child gets kidnapped every 30 seconds in South Africa. |
| 0:59.5 | But first... |
| 1:00.8 | This week, a British newspaper The Sunday Times pointed out |
| 1:05.8 | that there had been more murders in London than in New York in the last couple of months, |
| 1:10.8 | something that hasn't |
| 1:11.7 | happened in modern times. The reasons cited? A dramatic rise in life crime. Following that, |
| 1:19.6 | many more media outlets in the UK and the US reported this fact. Well, is it true? It is correct that |
| 1:26.4 | for the two months of February and March this year, |
| 1:29.2 | London has had a higher number of murders. The New York Police Department dealt with 11 homicides in |
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