San Andreas has a major surge in knife crime
By: Janice Richardson
October 22nd 2019 4:44pm
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Knife crime-related offences rose by 15% in the State of San Andreas in the last twelve months. Nation wide knife crime is up 3% in the last twelve months, this makes Los Santos the state with the highest knife crime nationally.
Between June 2018 and July 2019 the LSPD recorded 60,456 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, in comparison with 51387 in the year ending June 2018. The increase, based on data from 43 police precincts across San Andreas, the data excludes 8 precincts in Las Venturas dues to their undercounting of knife related crime in previous years.
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When crimes involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by these 13 precincts over the past year are factored in, the figure for offences in San Andreas is 64,608 – the highest since records began.
Of those incidents, 57% happened in Los Santos, 34% of that coming from the Ganton -Idlewood neighborhoods – where for every 100,000 people, there were 182 knife-related crimes recorded. Outside of the Ganton - Idlewood neighborhood, the areas with the highest rates of knife related crime were East Los Santos, Red county and Playa del seville, where there were 134, 104 and 112 knife-related offences per 100,000 people respectively.
Gathering from these statistics we can show that knives are now the preferred weapon when it comes to petty robbery and gang retaliation, in total violent attacks with household objects is up 4% in the last year in San Andreas. In the majority of these cases the knives were primarily gang related stabbings, we reached out to the LSPD public relations asking if they could name specific gangs, they are yet to respond.
These statistics have sparked outrage on social media, many neo-nazis have spoken out online calling for stricter immigration policy claiming that the majority of knife and gun crime in San Andreas is perpetrated by Islamic and Mexican migrants to the USA, as of now there is no evidence to support these claims, senator Dewey Davis has responded to these internet trolls, he said the following, "We shouldn't make claims that we cannot prove for ourselves, don't move towards hate on pure speculation, I will be focusing on cracking down on gang violence as a whole for the foreseeable future."
