OPINION - Too much woke and not enough awake, Sadiq. It’s got to stop
by Chris Blackhurst
Apr 29, 2024
3 minutes
The latest crime statistics for London make for appalling reading.
As the Standard reports, knife and gun crime both jumped by 20 per cent last year. The Office for National Statistics says that 14,626 knife offences were recorded in the capital in the 12 months to the end of December. That’s an average of 40 a day. Gun crime was also up, by nearly 200 on the 1,010 recorded by police a year earlier.
They are the numbers. They provide only an indication of how bad it has become. In
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