Shoplifting has soared to such “epidemic” levels with reports of 17,000 incidents-a-day while attacks on shopkeepers are up by 50 per cent. Reports of violence against women and girls have surged so alarmingly in the last few years that the police declared it a “national emergency”.
And just this week, teenagers rampaged with knives through a party at a primary school while thugs armed with foot-long machetes were caught on camera doing battle on a Tube station platform in front of horrified commuters.
