Crime in London, United Kingdom

As I see, a lot of people like to compare London to the much loved and adored US. But do you really want to compare to cities which doing worse to feel better? The crimes committed in London are similiar, if not even worse. London reached the homicide rate of NYC in march 2019. Of course London is a safe city compared to South American Cities or Tijuana or Chicago. But in Europe, not European Union, the UK is a high crime country,whats seems normal today. Gun crime is getting worse significantly. The knife crime epidemic goes on over years now and continoue to reach new high levels. It feels like nearly everyday someone loses a life in London to knife crime, not only gang members. Most of it is gang related between black young men. But the crime is getting out of control over the past 6 years. And the worst part is, it can happen to everybody, because crime is also committed on random people of the public. Acid attacks, moped crimes in broad daylight in front of dozens of people, postcode wars (mistaken identity), you have to keep your car always locked when driving, brutal home invasions. Burglaries. Drive by shootings and gun shoots fired on random people or houses. Cars stolen for joyriding and crashed and torched, and more. If this happens to random people, by just being in the wrong place, wrong time, thats not safe at all. You just need to read the News. Police isnt catching all the criminals, because there is too much crime for those police officers. Prisons are the next, even more severe and completly overcrowded problem. But most importantly, this comes from a broken society, full of selfish people, dont looking at others. Poverty which getting worse too (what a suprise). No perspectives for young men. Everywhere they building new posh high rise buildings in London, ruining the skyline, just to allocate the money from the rich, ending up the poorer people earning enough, but not enough for London prices. Dont get me wrong, i love London as a city, but it really lost the charme. Its not the end of the world, you can get out on the street, but just be careful, vigilant and better dont go out after dark. Its just not a safe city. Other UK Cities have much more problems with crime by less inhabitans. And if anyone comes here with racism, if you go up north the country, you will find native young british lads, doing the same crimes. Its a social,poverty problem, created by the attitude of the poorly educated minds, not only imported by migrants.

After many years spent here in London I can say this place really pissed me. It has become a trashold, glad they close borders now cause it got outhand. Worst of all are the groups of young lads mainly afro brit who seriously go around to look for problems so keep away from this crap

I was mugged yesterday, a group of young lads came up to me with switchblades and took my money. Wouldn’t recommend unless you live in a area that’s nice.

A lot of London crime isn’t even noted down so saying Amsterdam is safer is very misleading

Murder rate in London is only 1.3. Much better than Berlin = 2.6 , Amsterdam= 2.3 and many other european cities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_London#Gun_and_knife_crime

https://www.foxnews.com/world/top-10-deadliest-european-cities

I don’t live in either places but I felt safer in New York City than London. I was harassed a lot in London and even threatened. Maybe it’s just my experience but I feel like New York City is a bit safer.

It’s honestly getting out of hand, I’m starting to scary scary crime on a regular basis now. Even as simply walking to the shop I see fights and people threatening to use knifes.

I went to Hackney area for a job and saw a stabbing between 5 young men. Not very nice. London has been going downhill fast unfortunately.

Nah you lot are kids, London is trash. As a 43 year old man who has lived in London all his life, I can tell you that for the past 7 years this place has turned into a dump filled with crime. So stop giving false information and shush.

Also this guy just makes fake accounts to make bad cities look good so honestly just ignore him

lol, mans never been to the ends. I swear down if u man came to the ends of London u fam would get sorted easy. Keep running around the city saying it’s safe and some man might sort u out.

Ok, how did the crime index go down and the contributers go down by like 30? It’s almost like they have an agenda. Honestly I thinks London actual crime index should be 60.

London is so bad for real, i've visited lots of cities in europe and north america. London is one of the worst. Not the worst but one of the worst.

London is much safer than cities like Seattle, Paris, NYC, Toronto, El Paso, not even close to comparable to cities such as St Louis, Baltimore.
Chicago has more homicides than all of England.

Facts. People act like London is comparable to NYC, Toronto Detroit, Winnipeg, St Louis or Baltimore. Our homicide rate is literally 1.5 per 100,000, more than safe than even "safe" American and Canadian cities

Visited from Ottawa Ontario, when I went to London many of the people there were very rude and I saw lots of drug dealers and even noticed some people carrying knives. And apparently knife crime happens a lot there according to the people I spoke to. I didn’t exactly feel safe. I would say that Toronto and even Winnipeg are safer than London through what I witnessed.

My mum lives in Toronto and my dad lives in south London. I spend 8 months in Toronto and 4 months in London. And I can tell you that London is way worse. Toronto has its problems of course but London is terrible. My dad has been stabbed once by a man in a black ski mask. People here are not nice and the police are a complete joke. The crime and homicide rate is worse in London and I do not feel safe at all. Thankfully my dad should be moving to Cardiff soon. My recommendation to people is don’t live in London as there is nothing going for it and it’s on the way to becoming like Chicago or Detroit. If you come here for a visit then you should be ok if you stay in the safe areas and know what you are doing.

Safer than Toronto, NYC, San Jose. I think we're doing fine.
Our homicide rate is literally 1/3 of NYC AND Toronto, let's praise our city for once instead of making it seem like a Baltimore or Detroit or Winnipeg. Even Paris is doing worse then us.

Lived in Winnipeg,moved to London 5 years ago. You guys are exaggerating, London is EXTREMELY safe for a city of its size, and nothing compared to the crime in my hometown

London is one of the safest cities in the world, most people are exaggerating. It's safer than both New York City and Toronto.

London 2017 homicide rate: 1.3
Munich 2017 homicide rate: 1.7

You all exaggerate London crimes because you feel intimidated by foreign people.

I do a lot of walking around London, Ive been ok, probably more crooks about at night, I wouldn't walk around alone at night, anywhere in Northern Europe! it isn't that much different to any town or city in England. Id say most of the crimes in the world are young males who have a reckless view of life. Gangs are everywhere in any town or city in the world.
Type in Google : least corrupt countries in the world : the UK IS IN THE TOP 12 LEAST CORRUPT!!!
Corruption leads to crime.

I believe that London is not very safe, but I don't believe that it has more crime than Paris!

I was there with my two girl friends (we’re all 20) in December. We experienced a LOT of harassment going out at night. Even in very busy tourist filled areas, men would come close to us asking us questions like “where are you going? What are you doing?” We would avoid them and try to dodge around them but they followed and whenever we tried to tell them to go away they would start getting angry and begin insulting us, “you’re all fat and ugly anyways!” It was very uncomfortable and unfortunate. My friend was also pressed up against a wall when leaving a bar by two British men. When she pushed them away and started walking away they too began berating her with insults about her looks and weight.

@AlwaysCurious The area around Kings College is quite safe during the day as it's very central and very touristic. It also has good communications with tubes, buses and cabs passing all the time. Walking at night alone in Central London I think is quite safe but it's a matter of luck that you could find a problem with someone like in any other city in the world, like being robbed or something else but as I said it's very touristic and populated so it shouldn't be any problem.

Does anyone have any advice about living as a university student (Kings College London) area? Is it safe around the university?

People may not agree, but I've visited many areas in China, and I feel safer in London and all other parts of the UK than I do in any part of China (save maybe Shanghai).

Could not believe the amount of middle eastern Muslim’s thugs obviously unwilling to assimilate .
The were pockets of Sydney were I thought I was in Lebanon, then China .
Their Goverment has sold out the sovereignty with the rest of the NWO countries ,
Brisbane much more Australian and relaxed

Frank Brazil have 61619 people murdered for guns in one year. Dates of 2016
How compare this with others countries?

It's almost touching to see the patriotism of Londoners defending their city against its increasingly violent reputation with the Police so helpless when it comes to violent gangs.
Are you joking, #Ian, or do you seriously think that your personal experience of living in an area such as Primrose Hill is somehow representative of London?

I live in north london and it is very dangerous to be out past dark as there are many gangs and armed thieves with knives as well as people that like to start trouble.. furthermore there are many burglars in the area as i have caught them trying to steal from my property. I am a muslim but i do not experience any hate crime, nevertheless public opinion sometimes strays to oppose me, however i know i am an honest person and i jus tolerate intolerance in order to lead a successful lifestyle.