US EditionLondon Homicides Drop to Lowest Rate Since 1997
London recorded 97 homicides in 2025, the lowest since 2014, with a 36% drop from 2019 and a homicide rate of 1.1 per 100,000, credited to targeted police actions and prevention programs.
- Last year, the Metropolitan Police recorded 97 homicides in London, the lowest on record, with a homicide rate of 1.1 per 100,000, according to Scotland Yard.
- Using targeted operations, Rowley credited a mix of policing and prevention, citing 550,000 interventions by the Violence Reduction Unit and 21,231 gang dismantlements.
- In 2025, teenage murders fell to eight, a 73% reduction since 2021, while police seized 676 firearms and 2,894 knives from London streets.
- Public confidence measures show 81% of Londoners rate the Metropolitan Police as doing a good or fair job, despite a vetting review exposing 131 staff misconduct cases and a £260 million budget shortfall.
- Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said many have tried to talk London down, but the evidence shows progress, and violence-reduction leaders vow to continue prevention and operational focus.
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Sadiq Khan celebrates as London, England homicide rate now lowest in recorded history, safer than all US cities
As far as MAGA is concerned London, England is currently somewhere between Mad Max and Kabul at the height of Taliban control. Paranoid losers who’ve probably never left their hometowns paint a picture of a lawless metropolis full of “no-go” zones, populated by beaten-down Londoners trapped under the sinister rule of a hardline Muslim mayor. But as with most MAGA delusions, the reality is precisely the opposite. Today, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan …
With drastic accusations Trump paints a gloomy picture of the British capital. Statistics contradict the presentation as a hoard of violence and "no-go zone" clearly: London is safer than other metropolises – also in the US. Experts suspect a political calculation of the US president.
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