This is Jennifer Helen Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb. A Green Party member of the House of Lords. As you may expect with a member of the Green party Jenny is 'a penny short of a shilling.' This was made clear yesterday when she called for all men to face a 6 pm curfew in an attempt to make the streets safer for women. This is because a police officer is being investigated regarding the death of a young woman and now a Hysteria Bandwagon has arisen with all the usual suspects lining up to tell of their woes.
However,I recall searching out the murder numbers a while back and discovered things were not as they appear. Today I looked up these numbers and, eventually after much searching, discovered them.
The ONS figures for 'Homicide' are indeed interesting. Latest figures.
There were 695 victims of homicide in the year ending March 2020, 47 more (7%) than the previous year; this figure includes the Grays lorry incident with 39 homicide victims – if this incident is excluded, homicide showed a 1% increase overall.
The homicide rate was 11.7 per million population, with the rate for males (17 per million population) almost three times that for females (6 per million population); this is a higher difference than previous years because of a 20% increase in the number of male victims, from 422 to 506, and a 16% decrease in the number of female victims, from 225 to 188.
Just under two-thirds (443 or 64%) of all homicide victims in the year ending March 2020 were from the White ethnic group. The number of Black victims in the last year, at 105, was the highest seen since the year ending March 2002 (107 victims).
Just under two-thirds (443 or 64%) of all homicide victims in the year ending March 2020 were from the White ethnic group. The number of Black victims in the last year, at 105, was the highest seen since the year ending March 2002 (107 victims).
There were 105 victims identified in the Black ethnic group in the last year, accounting for 15% of all victims. This was an increase of nine homicides compared with the previous year.
The homicide rate over the three-year period to year ending March 2020
was 49.5 per million population for the Black ethnic group,
approximately five times higher than for the White ethnic group (9.4 per
million population).
There were 142 homicide victims aged 16- to 24-years-old, an increase of 32 on the previous year and a return to the relatively high levels seen in the year ending March 2018 (147).
Almost three-quarters of all victims were male (73%) and just over a quarter were female (27%).
There were 142 homicide victims aged 16- to 24-years-old, an increase of 32 on the previous year and a return to the relatively high levels seen in the year ending March 2018 (147).
Almost three-quarters of all victims were male (73%) and just over a quarter were female (27%).
It appears the number of women involved in Homicide cases is decreasing, possibly the Green Party do not know how to find figures, it is not a simple task. 73% of death were male, that figure is increasing, while the female figure drops. The news coverage of this does not appear anywhere as far as I can see.
It is clear that men suffer Homicide more than women (how many men killed by women is not stated) and Black men are suffering proportionately more than any white, male or female.
The truth is however that such loud women will join the bandwagon, that this sells papers and that the truth is not to be found as welcome to those individuals. It is still safe for women to walk the streets in 'England and Wales,' as the female MP's and loudmouths driving past will notice.
Interestingly, way down the page in the onine 'Daily Mirror' I fond Davina McCall tweeting:
"Female abduction/murder is extremely rare. Yes we should all be vigilant when out alone.
"But this level of fear-mongering isn’t healthy. And men’s mental health is an issue as well. Calling all men out as dangerous is bad for our sons, brothers, partners."
Naturally the sisterhood have denounced her with bitchy Twitter replies.
She is of course correct, as the figures prove, 188 women out of around 30 million females is rare indeed, especially when more men die, and young Black men in particular. However, correct figures do not defeat emotion, and it is emotion plus publicity seekers ensuring they are seen as leading the way that matters.
I found Davina's experience while I looked for something more 'light' to fill the page, there was nothing! All was "Woe and thrice woe!" and I went back to my daffodils for some succour. It is not easy to get succour out of a daffodil, so I just sit here looking at them and feeling relaxation wash over me.
