The Met said on Wednesday that it had recorded 55 suspected murders since the start of 2018 – including the deaths of two children whose bodies were found in Sussex. That reputation may be somewhat unwarranted these days; the murder rate in the US city has plummeted since the early 1990s, when it stood at about 2,000 a year. Last year the number of suspected murders in New York was 292 – 150% higher than in London. So it is premature to say London has a higher murder rate than New York, other than in the short term. And despite the negative publicity, London does not even have the highest murder rate in England and Wales when population is taken into account.

Source: The Guardian April 05, 2018 14:42 UTC