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Even as London faces record knife killings, the Mayor continues to undermine a system that has a proven record of tackling crime.
By Shaun Bailey
Ask yourself this question today: do you feel safe in London? Then ask the person next to you, and then ask the person next to them, and keep going until someone says ‘yes’. It may take some time.
Until every community can live, work, sleep, play and raise a family in our capital without fear, we cannot afford to stop being outraged about crime in the capital. Young boys being stabbed to death ought to be a rarity, yet in too many communities it is an expectation, with parents constantly worried about their children either joining a gang or being murdered by one.
The latest figures show that the black Londoners make up around 13 per cent of our city’s population, but when it comes to the representation of victims of knife crime, that percentage shoots up to about 45 per cent, and 61 per cent of the perpetrators are black. Such figures ar...
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