Gov stats show murder rate went up from 9.3 per million in March 2021 to 11.5 per million in March 2022 but then dropped back down to 9.9 per million in March 2023.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...ndingmarch2023
Murder rates were consistentlu higher from 1984 staying over 10 per million and rising to max of 17 per million in 2003 before slowly falling back to fluctuating between 9 and 11 per million in the years from 2012.
Unless there has been a sudden spike between March 23 and we are currently on course for a weird spike then it is likely to be somewhere in that range - it tends to only spike over that when there have been mass murders recorded in particular years. Odd that we didn't all have melt down in the years 98 to 03 when the muder rates did significantly climb.
I think much of this is just the more intense and competitive news reporting all aiming to catch our attention, which sadly murders always will do. Rubber necking sells, unfortunately, but it does create anxiety.