The Mayor is desperate to convince Londoners that crime is falling, despite all the evidence to the contrary, writes James Ford

London does not have a crime problem; it has a misinformation problem. That is the assertion of the capital’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan. Clearly wounded by President Trump’s recent claim that “crime in London is through the roof,” Sadiq is desperate to convince you that crime has fallen in the metropolis.

In recent weeks, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has released a barrage of statistics to insist that certain, key crime rates in London have fallen in the past year. According to City Hall: murders are down, burglaries are down and theft is down.

There is a whiff of political desperation to the Mayor’s protestations. MOPAC is keen to point out that, in the first nine months of 2025, the number of murders in London was the lowest it has been in the first nine months of any year since City Hall started tracking the capital’s monthly murder rate in 2003. But why is MOPAC so keen to just focus on the first nine months of every year? To say this sounds selective is an understatement. I don’t know if the........

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