Crime broken down by race in London in 2010

London was the scene of more murders in February and March than New York.

For over a long time I have been reading about the steep increase in violent crime in London. Mayor Khan attributed it to cocaine use among the middle classes which got him laughed into oblivion, though an intelligent Labour-voting Facebook friend in her fifties thought it made sense to her. Intelligent, nice people like her are, in a certain sense, the biggest problem in the Western world.

I thought I'd do some cursory research on the internet to see if demographics and immigration were linked to the rise in crime. I did not find such a link, but I did not look hard because I quickly came across this in Wikipedia, which astonished and horrified me.

In June 2010, through a Freedom of Information Act request, The Sunday Telegraph obtained statistics on accusations of crime broken down by race from the Metropolitan Police Service. The figures showed that the majority of males who were accused of violent crimes in 2009–10 were black. Of the recorded 18,091 such accusations against males, 54 percent accused of street crimes were black; for robbery, 59 percent; and for gun crimes, 67 percent.

Street crimes include muggings, assault with intent to rob, and snatching property. Black males accounted for 29 percent of the male victims of gun crime and 24 percent of the male victims of knife crime.On sex offences, black men made up 32 per cent of male suspects. Similar statistics were recorded for females. On knife crime, 45 percent of suspected female perpetrators were black; for gun crime, 58 percent; and for robberies, 52 percent.

The Wikipedia article is here and the Sunday Telegraph article is here.