The statistics inform a barely extra sophisticated story. You’re about 4 instances extra prone to be murdered in New York and 7 instances extra doubtless in LA, the place the Buttons seem to have fled. It isn’t simply compared with America that London fares nicely: the latest Workplace for Nationwide Statistics information reveals that London has a decrease charge of violent crime than the common throughout the nation. London does, nonetheless, have an general larger crime charge, with burglaries and robberies considerably rising lately (34,465 theft offences had been recorded in 2023/24, a rise of round 10,000 from the earlier 12 months). The Metropolitan Police, in the meantime, revealed that thefts of luxurious gadgets (watches, purses, jewelry) rose by 22 per cent between 2022 and 2024, with 9,433 incidents recorded inside a 12-month interval.
