Professor John Robertson OBA Contrary to the recent media frenzy in Scotland, directed at John Swinney and the SNP, suggesting young people are scared to go out, the statistics reliably tell a different story, about Scotland, if not elsewhere in the UK. From Knife crime statistics: FOI release published in October 2024 asking: The number of knife crime offences [homicides], broken down by offence, age of suspect, and ethnic appearance of suspect, for each year for the last ten years (broken down by year), up to the most recent data. The recent trends are clear: Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202400427434/