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• An article said analysis had shown that black victims made up 83.7% of unsolved shootings and 73.5% of unsolved stabbings in London, and implied that the incidents occurred in the period from 2019 to 2023. This was based on information in the source report. However, those statistics were actually from the period 2015 to 2024 ( Unsolved murders in London mostly involve black victims , 24 August, p13).
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