Londom murder rate is now lowest for decades \ stacker news ~charts_and

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You nay have heard that things are pretty bad in London, and as far as enacting a copy if 1984, they seem to be, but as for murder and stabbings:

they now stand at the lowest since monthly data started being published in 2003.

One of those deals where law enforcement busts violent crime down to something lesser to make them look good?

Government statistics are like filling out your own report card

This is my favorite (recent) example of how media can distort our perceptions.

I had never seen knife fights in London, then suddenly I start seeing many videos of them on X and get the sense that there's a real problem.

Though, I wonder if zooming out to the UK would produce the same results.

ahhh! The old cherry pick police data and swap out one form of violent crime for another game.

1990/2003 Hmmm.