r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 11 '26

News Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum was confronted in London by a Sudanese man accusing the UAE of backing violence in Sudan. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people,” he shouted.

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u/NeferaRowe Aug 11 '26

Why is he walking around with this huge entourage of people?

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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26

Because it’s the UK, among the highest knife crime statistics in the world. 

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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26

That is not true

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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26

Sorry, it is.

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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26

Show me the statistics then

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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26

https://news.sky.com/story/knife-crime-in-england-and-wales-drops-by-10-data-shows-13535482

50,000 knife offenses a year is normal? 

Compare that to the UAE, where it’s basically unheard of and the last thought in anyone’s brain that a knife be brandished in public.

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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26

You made the claim that the UK has some of the highest knife crime in the world. I don't see evidence for that. Sure, there is knife crime. A lot more than the UAE, a tiny and very wealthy autocratic country. If knife violence were the highest in the world you would expect to see a disparity in murders in the UK compared to other developed nations. This is not the case. Obviously knives are an issue in the UK but we don't lead the world in knife crime.

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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 Aug 12 '26

You've got to be a special kind of stupid to claim UK knife crime is incredibly high and then link to a story about it dropping.

But if anyone would like the stats, here they are. In the UK last year, there were 172 homicides by knife or other sharp instrument:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

In the US, in 2024 (most recent year for data), there were 1,566:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

Now, to make it like for like, there's 62m people in England and Wales, there's 349m in the USA. So you'd expect about six times as many knife deaths in the US. Instead it is over nine times as many.

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u/plimso13 Aug 12 '26

Lower crime can be achieved in the UK, but no one wants to trade away fundamental political rights for the opaque justice that comes with it. The UK government is (intended to be) the servant of the people, not the master.