FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3214
You asked
Please supply a breakdown of how many murders, muggings, robberies and knife crimes are perpetrated specifically by the black community every year compared to the Muslim community in London in the last three years.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We publish statistics taken from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and crimes recorded by the police. The CSEW is a victim survey and although it collects data on some offender characteristics, unfortunately this does not include ethnicity or religion.
Regarding your request for data about homicide, we publish a release called 'Homicide in England and Wales' which analyses data from the Home Office Homicide Index. The Home Office Homicide Index contains record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales.
The latest release including data to the year ending March 2020, can be found here.
The Appendix tables to this release include data on perpetrator characteristics including Appendix Table 28: 'Principal suspects convicted of homicide, by ethnic appearance of victim and principal suspect, combined data for year ending March 2018 to year ending March 2020'.
This data relates to principal suspects and as such, the figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available. Please note that no data is collected on the religion of the suspect.
Data on prosecutions and convictions by ethnicity is collected by the Home Office and published by the Ministry of Justice. The latest release is 'Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2020'.
Unfortunately, we do not hold police recorded crime figures on robbery or offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, by ethnic group. Data on these crimes are provided to us by the Home Office and it may be worth contacting them directly for further information on this. They can be contacted via email at: CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gov.uk.
If you would like any further information, you can email us at CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.