Overview

• New MOPAC figures comparing the 12 months to August with the previous year show 8,749 fewer violent crimes causing injury, a decline of nearly 12% across London.
• All 32 boroughs recorded falls in violence with injury, led by Havering (down 16.3%) and Enfield (down 16.1%), with smaller decreases in Greenwich (4.3%) and Kensington and Chelsea (4.6%).
• Met Assistant Commissioner Rachel Williams says violence with injury is down in every borough, homicide is at its lowest level in a decade, and firearms discharges are less than half what they were seven years ago.
• Sadiq Khan rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that crime in London is “through the roof,” describing it as misinformation after Trump’s UN remarks.
• Conservative critics dispute the overall picture, pointing to increases in some knife‑crime measures, a fall in stop‑and‑search, low robbery solve rates, and reductions in officer numbers.