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Someone please tell the Mayor of London where in 2018 the "capital's murder rate overtakes New York for the first time ever".
by vixen99 8y ago
Someone please tell the Mayor of London where in 2018 the "capital's murder rate overtakes New York for the first time ever".
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoThat was an anomaly for February, and is a good example of how statistics are manipulated by the media to fit a narrative: https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/15/new-york-murder-rate-is-much-higher-than-londons-new-figures-show-7717873/ https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/15/new-york-murder-rate-is-much-... London is safer that New York on almost every measure, but NYC has come a long way over the past 20 years.
- simoncarter 8y agoFrom the article: "Where could a public health approach to violence be introduced next? One possibility is London, where in 2017 knife crime among under-25s reached a five-year high. In recent months, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, and the mayor, Sadiq Khan, have been among those calling for a public health approach."
- nortiero 8y agoJust to add a few details, Cressida Dick is the person who ordered the execution of a brasilian electrician, down in the London Underground. It does not surprise me that aristocrats are in favour of a medical approach to crime: to help enforce the state monopoly on violence itself.