The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.
Meanwhile, a report from the think tank, Policy Exchange by former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector David Spencer, says that during the last decade, the Met has managed to catch only one in twenty robbers and an astonishing one in 170 snatch thieves – that includes mobile phone snatchers.
