Violence against women rises nearly 40% in London

That is another thing I was wondering looking at the chart because I know they expanded sexual offences to include upskirting and street harrassment to include wolf whistling/cat calling. Public fear and alarm could be related to the number of protests for various causes happening in London has been way more frequent than pre 2015.

The chart is a raw number of cases. I’d be curious what the per capita data shows because the London metro area population was 8.5m in 2015 and 9.8m in 2025.

In addition, the headline is combining all offences, but when you look at the chart, the only offences that are on an alarming rise are stalking & harrassment and public fear & alarm?

Violence with physical injury has gone down, rape and other sexual offences are pretty flat. Again these are total cases so if VAWG had not increased or decreased on a per capita basis, you’d still see the raw number of cases go up by 15% due to the increase in population. These seem to be less prevalent as the number of cases aren’t up 15% for these offences.

@IwantToRetireMainly personal experience, Nextdoor local posts and talking to my neighbours

I live in South London. My personal experience is that we have a substantial increase in crimes against women, children, plus, increase in theft, burglaries and ASBOs. I’m super vigilant while passing through my local park during the day, never go there after dark.

I think this is where I read about it!

Northern Ireland has one of the worst domestic abuse problems in Europe and has for some time. Almost all murders of women in Northern Ireland are by domestic partners or ex's. The paramilitary legacy means violent men have a power base they can become involved in so that women are often trapped not just by the violent man they unfortunately ended up with, but by a group of violent men who support their abuser and control the neighbourhood they live in making it difficult for them to get any support. This is similar to the impact the Mafia in the areas they have control.

As HMI notes (see earlier quote), the figures over the last decade are not directly comparable because 10y ago, the police recorded a far smaller proportion of offences than they do now.

These trends are completely unreliable and cannot be relied upon for any serious discussion.

Men have got the message that nothing will happen to them

@logiccalls you can write the word rape here. Try it. It makes your post easier to read

don't get snippy - i was agreeing that it is better/easier/more productive to post everything in FWR and ignore the useless chat.

But you do you.

Knife crime has risen 97% in 8 years (according to the winning short film "where is it safe to stab someone?", mentioned in a Telegraph item this week), crime against women 47% in 10 years (according to this thread).

Times this week had an article about girls having to shut up in school, because if boys speak in class it is listened to with respect, but if girls speak, the boys disrupt the class: Girls also must put up with endless r ape talk, in corridors and the playground, with boys constantly threatening or discussing it as a casual option any one of them might choose, at any time.

If recorded crime is said not to have risen, one must conclude that means it has not been recorded correctly, and/or that the method of recording has been deliberately skewed.

The way to report r a pe was apparently by a form which required the victim to state which of a range of age brackets she was in. The age brackets had an upper limit, presumably because there is no such thing as old women and/or no such thing as raping them.

The fact that a majority of men admit they would r ape if they could get away with it, and would not exclude children, makes it more sinister that the conventional default assumption is that every man must be safe with his own infant or other non verbal child.

Every man who has been a normal father grandfather and a loving faithful reliable husband, perfectly conventional in every way, for fifty years of happy married life, may at the same time be another Pelicot.

Crime, and crime 'statistics', are two different things.

PS Someone else has posted about' gaming' the system eg claiming to be trafficked or enslaved, to get right to remain. There are multiple other forms of gaming, for instance sealing the flat and running a tumble dryer with the outlet hose disconnected will help mould to spread, to get to the top of the council waiting list, or get an upgrade or change of location. Being a DV victim is similar in effect. . .

I’m guessing if this stacks up and is replicated elsewhere, Labour’s target of halving vawg is looking under threat?

A quick Google reveals London's population has grown 6% in the last 10 years, largely driven by international migration. Numbers of reported crime should rise in line but if crimes against women are rising and serious crime is falling, the men living in London have very worrying attitudes to women and girls.

Blaming SK is pathetic. It’s completely ignoring the wider issue in society.
Just pack it in.

And yet violent crime in the city as a whole has gone down - how depressing!

There are some offences such as modern slavery and domestic abuse that are gateways to gaining leave to stay for migrants so that will affect those figures. Especially MS.

I thought this too. And why not?

In unrelated news, "London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where everyone is welcome" (Sadiq Khan).

If you read descriptions from court cases about what happened to the victims of grooming gangs increased violence in London under Sadiq Khan won't surprise you.