It always shocks me how people like to excuse crime in London. 70000 phones snatched in a year. 3000 stabbings a year. The phone snatchings are so common that

It always shocks me how people like to excuse crime in London. 70000 phones snatched in a year. 3000 stabbings a year. The phone snatchings are so common that I can name several victims from completely different walks of life. Maybe the most mental incident was when a colleague's phone was snatched then subsequently ditched on the floor cos it was too old to be worth the trouble of fencing... As a native Londoner I didn't realise how much baggage I carried wrt crime until I moved to Singapore and realised that leaving your front door open, your car unlocked or your phone on a restaurant table aren't crimes you apparently deserve to be immediately punished for. It's kind of nice knowing that children and the elderly can go about their day without fear of crime or that women can be unsupervised at night without fear of violence. It's actually very liberating being free from the tyranny of crime.