Get the facts on crime
Crime is difficult to measure and that makes it easy to be alarmed by newspaper reports that might not tell the whole story. We look behind the headline figures and put them in context
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Latest crime fact checks
What do we know about knife crime levels since 2010?
A figure used by Home Office minister Chris Philp isn’t necessarily the most useful indicator of knife crime trends.
How has the number of prison officers changed under the Conservatives?
The Prime Minister claimed the number of prison officers has increased by 4,000 “over the past few years”.
The number of prison escapes has been falling since the 1990s
We looked into the figures after the PM claimed prison escapes were 10 times higher under the last Labour government.