Half of knife crime suspects in their 50s, police data show

More than half of the suspects in knife crimes committed in public places last year were in their 50s or older, according to Seoul police data. Men accounted for 87.9 percent of the suspects. An analysis of 307 cases found that the average age of suspects was 49.7, with 54.7 percent aged 50 or above. At the time of the offense, 50.5 percent of suspects were either intoxicated or in what police described as an “abnormal mental state.” As for motive, 46.7 percent of the cases had no clear motive.

By The Korea Herald