Did you know that during the last two years burglary rates around the world plummeted by a whopping 28 per cent? And by an even more whopping 29 per cent in London town, itself?
There are many factors which may have attributed to this (although not all attributable to fact), including: the now more widespread accessibility and use of domestic smart security cameras and video doorbells; some utterly unexpected increase in morality rates amongst the boudoir-breaking criminal classes; and/or, possibly, just possibly, the fact that more people stayed firmly at home thanks to something you may dimly recall called ‘lockdown’. Whether it was any of these factors individually or some combination of two or more that led to the plummet of breaking-and-entering across the world and our capital is, frankly, unknown and probably work for a less lazy journalist, but I do know which two elements I’m absolutely sure we’d all rather favour and see more of.
