By Lib Peck

For some time, social media driven headlines generated by those seeking to profit from scaremongering have screamed of crime being out of control in London, fuelling a sense of the capital being unsafe.

The reality paints a very different picture. In 2025 the number of homicides were the lowest per capita in recorded history. The number of young people killed was also the lowest this century, and teenagers losing their lives to violence was the joint lowest in three decades.

There are some that will not want Londoners or indeed those wanting to visit or do business in our great city to know that because it doesn’t suit their narrative.

But how did we get here?

Seven years ago, 54 young people tragically lost their lives to violence in London.

In recognition of the fact it is not possible to arrest your way out of violence, the Mayor of London took a step that was to be replicated by other cities and regions across the........

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