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“The data shows that a range of crimes, including theft from the person, sex offences, drugs and violent crime, have dramatically increased from when Sir Sadiq first came to power in 2016.
Theft from the person has increased by 140 per cent from 35,570 in 2016-17 to 85,465 in 2025-26. In 2024-25, the year Sir Sadiq was re-elected, it had even skyrocketed to 101,053.
Elsewhere, sexual offences have risen by 55 per cent from 17,491 in 2016-17 to 27,074 in 2025-26.
Drug offences have risen by 34 per cent from 40,652 in 2016-17 to 54,291 in 2025-26.
And violence against the person has soared by 51,086 incidents 27 per cent from 191,691 in 2016-17 to 242,777 in 2025-26.
The figures, based only on crimes reported to the Metropolitan Police, do not factor in how London's population has grown over the same time. Official estimates suggest the capital's headcount has risen from 8.7m in 2016, the year Sir Sadiq was elected, to just shy of 9.1m in 2024 – the most recent year.
Despite these statistics, London
remains one of the safest major cities in the world with a per capita homicide rate lower than New York, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona.
But, for Londoners, it is the threat of petty crimes that pose the greatest day-to-day risk.”
London may be safer from homicide than many but I have no intention of taking my granddaughter to any of those other cities.
Maybe, just maybe I don’t want to put her in the position of, potentially witnessing any of the above. What a wimp I am