The three greatest variables for crime increase are a) the amount of poverty and b) police funding, c) social service funding.
Yes, from 16-20 it decreased year on year when Khan became Mayor. I know that goes against the rhetoric but hey. Yes it's gone up again during the last 12 months which has a huge different factor in covid.Are you sure ?
Shootings in London on the rise despite lockdown, police reveal
Scotland Yard figures reveal 288 incidents in 2020 where a lethal firearm was discharged, compared with 266 in 2019.www.google.co.uk
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Where in London?It’s not really rhetoric, I live in London and it is a lot worse than it used to be and seems to be getting worse.
Number of homicides in London climbs to 10-year high
Met police recorded 149 homicides in 2019 to 30 December, up from 135 in 2018
Greenwich
there is a clear rhetoric against Khan, it's been non-stop, some of it just plain racism, some of it due to him being labour. But the facts don't support the constant jibes at him. It's a complex scenario, he only has influence on various factors and the stats are up and down for him as they were for Johnson. It isn't a straight line all crime up every year for him and down for Johnson, in fact, far from it.It’s not really rhetoric, I live in London and it is a lot worse than it used to be and seems to be getting worse.
Number of homicides in London climbs to 10-year high
Met police recorded 149 homicides in 2019 to 30 December, up from 135 in 2018
Peckham then.
Not Peckham , there’s nothing wrong with PeckhamPeckham then.
I have been in London twenty plus years, I’d have to check but I think it was around 2010 - there was a spate of stabbings and when I say spate there was about one teenager killed per month. It was shocking at the time and at the top of the news.fast forward a decade and now there is about one a week and it’s the norm no one really bats an eyelid it’s just accepted that that’s the way things are.That’s just one example but there are many more- you can’t argue that this sort of crime hasn’t increased. I don’t particularly care who was the mayor at the time I don’t believe that the mayor can control this on his/her own anyway.
Like I said above austerity increases crime. It's a national disease, not just London.
Christ you live in Greenwich and you're worried about gun crime.
Crime in London has gone down since the noughties. There's plenty of data on it if you want to look.
It has nothing to do with which mayor is in charge. They really don't have any impact on crime and policing in London. Pretty infantile.
I’m not worried about gun crime - but I don’t believe it has gone down.Christ you live in Greenwich and you're worried about gun crime.
Crime in London has gone down since the noughties. There's plenty of data on it if you want to look.
It has nothing to do with which mayor is in charge. They really don't have any impact on crime and policing in London. Pretty infantile.
Statistics can and are used to prove many arguments either way. All I’m saying is there are no statistics that you can drum up that would convince me that dangerous crime in London has reduced since the noughties. How those statistics are collected and defined may well have changed but for sure crime is on the increase.
As of 31 December 2018, there have been 132 homicides reported in London in 2018.[26] The year 2019 was reportedly London's bloodiest year since more than a decade, which recorded a 11-year high of 143 people being killed.[27][28] As of 31 December 2019, the number of homicides reported reached 149, the highest in a decade.[29]
No they can't. If there are twenty murders one year and ten murders the next then there have been fewer murders. It's simple bald facts. A dead person is a dead person. But like you say if you're determined to believe the earth is flat then that's you're call.