Overview
- Mayor’s Office figures for the 12 months to August 2025 report 8,749 fewer violent offences resulting in injury, a near 12% year-on-year fall across all 32 boroughs.
- Metropolitan Police leadership says violence with injury is down in every borough and points to targeting dangerous individuals, disrupting networks and prevention work as drivers.
- City Hall says homicides are at a 10-year low and reports a 17% fall in the homicide rate compared with 2016, with London’s rate lower than Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid and major US cities.
- ONS data indicate Londoners face fewer violent crimes per capita than the average across England and Wales, at 26.4 versus 31.9 offences per 1,000 people.
- Conservative critics call the mayor’s framing selective, citing rises in some offences such as knife crime and low robbery detection, while police data show mobile phone thefts up 2.4% over the past year as Trump’s UN remarks intensified the political row.