London is safer than every American State

Neighbourhood offences are down 14% in the year to June

Thefts from person down 23%

Average of 40 knife-related offences per day

First three months of 2026 3,300 knife crimes were logged with Met Police, with 267 resulting in severe or fatal harm.

Why does that guy choose to ignore the fact that the number of rapes or sexual crimes in London is rising year on year and is at an all time high?
I'm a born and bred Londoner, went to university there, worked there, married someone from there and raised our family there. Yet, I fear rape for my DGC, both male and female living there. more than anything, because it's now one rape every hour.
In that respect London is certainly not getting safer every year.

I agree with Martavtaurus and it’s one thing getting certain crimes down, all good to be sure, but another to not take into account violence and sexual crimes again girls and women.
Who are the ‘certain right wing figures’ btw?
I’m a Londoner born and raised who was glad to get out of there.

Since almost 50% of Londoners living there are foreign born it’s not surprising that men who come from cultures that have no respect for women commit offences of that nature.I wouldn’t live in any city in England now if you paid me.So glad all my family are out and living in a town.

How come people can’t move out of London fast enough then? Most of the houses sold up here now go to Londoners and they say they are fed up with the crimes and they don’t feel safe.

Met Police say rape and sexual assault is up and rising in London.

There were 26,803 police recorded 2024-2025 in London.

Thanks for the figures to substantiate my comment, GrannyGravy13. There are times when we don't need to quote stats because we speak as those who know. And it mustn't be ignored that these sexual crimes are just those that are reported to the police.

Is it really that the number of rapes has increased or that women are more willing to report them?

When you see rape trials reported. Often the rapes reported happened 10 = 20 years ago. Women are still more likely not to report rape than report it.

In many cases one person reports someone and then many other women attacked by the same person come forward.

I think at the moment it is impossible to have reliable comparative rape statistics, simply because of this historic under-reporting and that as women become more confident about what happens when they report a rape, more are willing to report them, but, I think, even today there is asignificant under reporting of rape cases.

Maybe M0nica, someone would nbleed to look more closely. It's a very difficult area.
Maybe the definition of sexual crimes has changed?
What worries me is the "touching up" or inappropriate groping that goes on on the tube when DGD and friends travel home from school. These are young teenagers, they're unlikely to always report.

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