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Statistically, over the past 20 years, the number of incidents of violent crime have tripled, but the number of those that are ‘random’ I suspect are still relatively small. Happy to be corrected though.

There are certainly higher levels of violent crime overall, but there are less murders in the UK compared to 1990, so it is a nuanced topic for sure. I don’t think the UK is an inherently more dangerous country for the average person than it has been for the previous few decades though.

Those by and large are not random events. A huge proportion are gang-related or resulting from some previous interaction between the people involved. My point was that if you’re not in a gang, or caught up in some other criminal activity, the chances of you being attacked in the UK are broadly...

I’d say the vast majority of the UK is very safe indeed. Your chances of being caught up in a random violent event are very, very low indeed.

A thoroughly bizarre post, both in general and in the specific context of this thread.