At last, the ethnic background to London's steep increase in violent crime

I live so far from England. Reading all the time about the huge recent increase in violent crime in London my obvious question is: is it white British people who are committing these crimes or other ethnic groups? 

Until now I saw no answer to this. But now Trevor Phillips, television presenter, Labour politician, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality  and the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, himself black, has answered my question in an article in the Daily Telegraph:

Though Longfield does not say so in terms, the evidence shows that the wave of killings and maimings we are seeing are assassinations of black children by other black children, all too often directed by adult drug dealers. And it pays to read the small print in her report. The technical appendices tell us that, in effect, race is the best predictor of being in a gang, being a victim of knife crime or of being a killer.
Among children who are not involved in gangs, more than 81 per cent are white and just 7 per cent black; but among those identified as gang members by social work practitioners the figures are 48 per cent white and 31 per cent black. Worse still, among those in greatest trouble – the “extensive offending group” in the jargon – black youngsters make up 37 per cent of the population compared to 39 per cent whites.
In essence, black boys are more than 20 times as likely to be involved in serious attacks compared with their white peers. I suspect that closer analysis of the data will point to the prevalence of terrible trauma suffered by refugee children which is now being parlayed into wanton violence. These children may need our sympathy and protection; they are also crying out for control and therapy.
Yet, to read our newspapers and to listen to our media, you would imagine that race played no part in this issue at all. The BBC in particular is guilty of whitewashing the truth. Its defence is that race should only be reported where it is relevant. Yet it has no qualms about routinely describing stop and search by police in racial terms. If the media thinks it can keep its racial innocence by saying nothing, it’s kidding itself.
The daily parade of dark faces in items about knife crime tells its own story. And the routine appearance of such individuals as “Olu from Brixton” in radio interviews would provoke howls of “racist dog-whistling” around Broadcasting House were the BBC’s own journalists not so deeply complicit in the silence.