Violence against women rises nearly 40% in London

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Violence against women and girls in London has increased by 39% over the past decade, rising from 74,526 offences in 2014 to 103,089 in 2025, according to Metropolitan Police data.

Furthermore, the figures reveal that Westminster has experienced the most pronounced rise, with offences increasing by around 68% during the same period.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) includes offences such as domestic abuse, harassment, sexual violence and trafficking. The most common VAWG-related offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police since 2019 have been stalking and harassment.

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I wonder if the increase is partly that women are more willing to report? Maybe? But either way scary.

And were no rapes reported in 2019??

(Have posted chart as image so may not show immediately as will have to be approved!)

Sadiq Khan has made it clear he doesn't give a damn about women's rights or safety, that has to be a factor.

I think you are crediting Sadiq Khan with far more influence than he actually has.

The problem is men.

If you look at the chart there is a huge increase in stalking and harrasment which fits in with other threads that women are now facing more public threatening behaviour.

And without saying they are acceptable sexual offences haven't increased that much and maybe as much to do with population increase in London.

But what is strange as that apparently public fear / distress has dropped.

Could it be that more women are reporting these incidents rather than just tolerating them?

From https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2025: "In YE September 2025, the police recorded 6.7 million crimes, similar to the previous year (6.7 million crimes) and up from 4.2 million in YE March 2015. Increases since YE March 2015 are largely because of changes in police activity and recording practices. While some of the rise may reflect genuine changes in trends in crimes reported to and recorded by police, these figures are largely influenced by improvements in recording standards. As a result, police recorded crime is not generally considered a reliable indicator of overall crime trends.

For further information see His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services' report, How effectively do the police record crime?."

From the HMI report: "In 2014, we estimated that forces recorded 80.5 percent of all crime. This included recording 66.9 percent of violent crime and 74.2 percent of sexual offences. For 2023–25, we estimated that forces recorded 94.8 percent of all crime. This included recording 93.6 percent of violent crime and 95.9 percent of sexual offences."

More dreadful guys like this/the pervs near my workplace- can we stop letting them hang out in the UK please?

www.reddit.com/r/london/s/w5za9Kaxxq

I suspect this is more about reporting - either women being more prepared to report or police officers being encouraged to document crime more (possibly, even, an explosion in historical offences, depending on what figures the reports document).

The Crime Survey For England and Wales (CSEW), which is generally thought to be more reliable for showing long term trends, shows violent crime against women is down over the last 10 years (there are a couple of categories that are up, but overall, it's down). And it shows that violent crime in London is down over the last 10 years (police figures show and increase in reports).

CSEW doesn't publish sex differentiated figures by region, but it seems most likely that if the Met police report an increase against both women and men when CSEW show a decrease, and CSEW shows a decrease for violent crime against women across the country, that the London figures are about police processes and not the actual incidence.

Which isn't to diminish the seriousness of violence against women or the need to tackle it. Just don't like women getting more concerned about their safety if it's not valid as fear can really dampen our ability to engage in the world.

Wasn't there a new specific crime for stalking in the early 2010s? Some of the increase could be the public becoming aware of that and starting to report things they might not have realised were criminal before.
I hate when people smooth out graphs which contain a low number of items. It looks like there are trends when it's just one year's blip. At absolute minimum put dots on the actual data points.

If I had a pound for every time I hear "London has never been Safer, it's only people's perception of crime that has changed. It's because more people are reporting crime." Gaslighting and lies. Again we are being bullied into denying what we see with our own eyes. What we experience on our streets It's not only London, it's the same in cities up and down the country. All the work done over the years to stop unwanted catcalling from building sites yet now schoolgirls walking past groups of men being leered at and propositioned is something we just have to accept as these men 'don't understand'. Men becoming aggressive and violent when women don't respond to their attention. Sadiq Khan waves it away. Only high profile muggings and attacks get any coverage which is infuriating. Who fucking cares if your rolex has been snatched, why is your hurt more important than all of us who suffer phone thefts and other street crime.

PS IWant is this a one-woman campaign to ditch the feminism chat forum and have everything in one place?

Sadiq Khan is the Police and Crime commissioner for London, he has the power to direct police resources and focus.

He is also the man that spent millions on the Maaaate campaign. Khan is spending millions on advertising (all the TFL adverts telling you to tie you shoelaces and don't run, walk etc).

It's virtue signalling, he knows London's reputation is in the bin globally but isn't interested.

I think this in part is due to higher reporting, encouraged by change of societal opinion and support from DV agencies.

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.

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

I thought this too. And why not?

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.

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

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

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.

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

If this is aimed at me I have no idea what you are talking about!

I have been on FWR for years, not sure how many.

And obviously because of the current, or ongoing need to campaign against the TRAs, there are obviously more threads on this.

But many others on FWR post on a range of feminists issues, or even not strictly feminist issues (directly) eg long threads about the Green Party (groan) or even (help - no) The Other Party.

And breast reduction.

Nobody post on Chat as it was set up by MNHQ without consultation, for all the be kind / I am a nice women to not have to think about the impact of trans ideology on women's rights. Which are of course sex based.

But it is true (and i even started a thread about it - accidentally) that I have suggested MNHQ does away with "chat" as it is pointless.

But also because there is a creeping effect that FWR is becoming less feminist as some are attracted on the basis that they can discuss trans issues, but have no interest in feminism.

So on one level FWR is less political in a feminist sense than it used to be, but is more political in terms of boring male political party politics.

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. . .

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.

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

I wasn't being snippy - that is my happy chatty mode!

Men have got the message that nothing will happen to them