Over the summer months, 5 million people will visit London, with its free museums and galleries, massive events featuring the biggest names in music and sport, and everything Britain’s capital city has to offer. And, as new figures released today show, they’ll be able to do so knowing London is one of the safest cities of its size in the world. On social media, a dark blizzard of disinformation – much of it coordinated and amplified by extreme groups and hostile foreign actors – has seen bots and trolls depict London as a “lawless” city where crime goes unpunished and...
Posted on 07/23/2026 5:11:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Over the summer months, 5 million people will visit London, with its free museums and galleries, massive events featuring the biggest names in music and sport, and everything Britain’s capital city has to offer. And, as new figures released today show, they’ll be able to do so knowing London is one of the safest cities of its size in the world.
On social media, a dark blizzard of disinformation – much of it coordinated and amplified by extreme groups and hostile foreign actors – has seen bots and trolls depict London as a “lawless” city where crime goes unpunished and social decency has all but disappeared. But let’s deal in facts: data published by the Metropolitan police this morning shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Across the capital, there were 35,000 fewer “neighbourhood crimes” – a category which includes burglaries, thefts, robberies and vehicle crime offences – in the past 12 months than in the year before.
This has not happened by accident. As mayor I have provided a record £1.26bn in funding for the capital’s police force, more than double the amount under my predecessor. That funding has enabled it to invest in cutting-edge technology to keep pace with criminals, including ebikes and drones to pursue phone snatchers down London’s busy streets, but it has also boosted neighbourhood policing in communities across our city.
Now, we have more evidence that our approach is yielding real results. In Westminster – home to many communities and the centre of the capital’s tourism – we’ve doubled the number of police officers and introduced a new “command cell” to lead a crackdown on phone theft and robbery, neighbourhood crime has fallen by 36%. In the West End, the beating heart of London’s visitor economy, phone thefts are down by half.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
To: MinorityRepublican
Sadiq Khan
Yeah... Sure...
2 posted on 07/23/2026 5:12:43 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: MinorityRepublican
Hey, if Sadiq Khan says that the Muslims are not a problem, I guess I’ll just have to believe him.
3 posted on 07/23/2026 5:13:12 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Well not to other muslims of which Khan is one but the infidels are another story of course.
4 posted on 07/23/2026 5:16:46 PM PDT by xp38
To: MinorityRepublican
Is this all the crime or did they remove some of the rape gang crime? Can you really believe them after that huge cover up?
5 posted on 07/23/2026 5:19:01 PM PDT by jimpick
To: MinorityRepublican
I’m sure it’s not all bad...yet. The trend is what is disturbing.
6 posted on 07/23/2026 5:19:11 PM PDT by IDFbunny (No more brother wars.)
To: MinorityRepublican
The people of the lie.
7 posted on 07/23/2026 5:19:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Sadiq Khan is just so believable.
8 posted on 07/23/2026 5:20:16 PM PDT by Bookshelf ( )
To: MinorityRepublican
Other criminals hauled off
people who stained Sikh ceremonial knives with their blood
people praying outside of abortion clinics
people posting memes or online statements countering government defined truth
Amelia (once she is found
children defending family members from pedophiles
And anyone else whose eyes flash the slightest doubt or irony at the old or new prime minister
9 posted on 07/23/2026 5:20:18 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Golly. Turns out not enforcing the law for the third world imports led to a reduction in crime.
To: All
To: MinorityRepublican
I would not trust anything from The Guardian.
12 posted on 07/23/2026 5:25:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
To: MinorityRepublican
13 posted on 07/23/2026 5:26:04 PM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
To: MinorityRepublican
From the article:
“Since last year, thousands of police officers across our city have been arresting an extra 1,000 suspects every month on average. “
How many of those arrests were made for saying or posting something that wasn’t politically correct?
14 posted on 07/23/2026 5:30:37 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
To: KarlInOhio
Other criminals hauled off
People waving the English flag
People disparaging homos (except the muslims)
15 posted on 07/23/2026 5:32:37 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
To: MinorityRepublican
To paraphrase Stalin, it doesn’t matter what the crime stats are. What matters is who compiles the stats.
To: MinorityRepublican
17 posted on 07/23/2026 5:34:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
To: Leaning Right
18 posted on 07/23/2026 5:37:10 PM PDT by TexasGator (/1.1Yn.11-1i11'./1)
To: xp38
19 posted on 07/23/2026 5:39:31 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Exactly, you can’t trust ANYTHING ANY mooselimb says AT ALL, period.
20 posted on 07/23/2026 5:40:02 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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