London one of safest cities in the world
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It's really impressive isn't it.
www.bbc.co.uk
Met Police and Sadiq Khan hail lowest homicide rates since 2014
According to the latest data, there were 97 homicides in London in 2025 - the lowest figure since 2014.
www.bbc.co.uk
His policy of smashing the drug gangs and decriminalisation is clearly a winning strategy.
Don't blame him!
It's curious isn't it - what the facts are, how we make sense of them or not, and how that relates to our particular cherished positions - I very much include myself in this.
Here's a surprising piece from Fix the News - I'm sure someone will have the time to find the underlying research:
"...Perhaps more striking still, the world became a safer place than ever before. Most people would dispute this; surveys show majorities in almost every country believe violence is rising. Yet the World Bank released data in September showing the global murder rate has declined on every continent during this century, and Gallup found that 73 percent of people globally now feel safe walking alone at night, the highest level ever recorded.
In 2025 the United States will almost certainly record its lowest murder rate in history. Not since the pandemic, not since the 1990s crime wave, but lower than any year since the FBI began tracking in 1960. Violent crime is at its lowest level since 1968. Property crime is at the lowest rate ever measured. Baltimore, which The Wire made synonymous with drug violence, has seen emergency rooms that once overflowed with gunshot victims nearly empty out.
Even on the world’s most dangerous continent, homicide rates have declined, by 22.6 percent in South America and 58 percent in Central America in the last decade. Brazil's homicide rate fell 15 percent in the first half of 2025, reaching its lowest level since 2012. Mexico's daily murders have dropped by 37 percent under President Sheinbaum. Jamaica recorded a 42 percent decline, the steepest annual fall in four decades.
We have built the safest civilisation in human history while convincing ourselves that we live in the most dangerous"
Here's a surprising piece from Fix the News - I'm sure someone will have the time to find the underlying research:
"...Perhaps more striking still, the world became a safer place than ever before. Most people would dispute this; surveys show majorities in almost every country believe violence is rising. Yet the World Bank released data in September showing the global murder rate has declined on every continent during this century, and Gallup found that 73 percent of people globally now feel safe walking alone at night, the highest level ever recorded.
In 2025 the United States will almost certainly record its lowest murder rate in history. Not since the pandemic, not since the 1990s crime wave, but lower than any year since the FBI began tracking in 1960. Violent crime is at its lowest level since 1968. Property crime is at the lowest rate ever measured. Baltimore, which The Wire made synonymous with drug violence, has seen emergency rooms that once overflowed with gunshot victims nearly empty out.
Even on the world’s most dangerous continent, homicide rates have declined, by 22.6 percent in South America and 58 percent in Central America in the last decade. Brazil's homicide rate fell 15 percent in the first half of 2025, reaching its lowest level since 2012. Mexico's daily murders have dropped by 37 percent under President Sheinbaum. Jamaica recorded a 42 percent decline, the steepest annual fall in four decades.
We have built the safest civilisation in human history while convincing ourselves that we live in the most dangerous"
"We have built the safest civilisation in human history while convincing ourselves that we live in the most dangerous"
If you watch Gumbynews and read the D. Express on a daily basis, yes.
If you watch Gumbynews and read the D. Express on a daily basis, yes.
