London More Dangerous Than NYC?

[CharlesHarris]

London has overtaken New York City for number of murders for the first time in over 200 years... Britain’s multicultural capital edged ahead of the American city – once so notorious for its high crime rates that it was chosen as the setting for Charles Bronson’s Death Wish – in February, The Times reports.

London saw 15 killings to New York’s 14 over the course of the month, and appears to have outstripped ‘Gotham’ yet again in March, with 22 killings to 21. Historically, London has had a murder rate per person between half and one-twentieth of New York’s since 1800, according to FBI data and studies by University of California researcher Eric Monkkonen. The change is partly a consequence of Mayor Khan’s campaign against using stop and search on ethnic minorities, with London police chief Cressida Dick admitting that constables have become “fearful” of confronting suspects as they “might get into trouble or might not be supported if they had a complaint”. Figures released last year showed London was already the more dangerous of the two cities for almost every other category of violent and sexual crime, with Londoners six times more likely to be burgled than New Yorkers, three times more likely to be raped, and one and a half times more likely to be robbed...

(The underlying problem with stop-and-frisk – as it is called in the US – is that the practice is based on laws that prohibit citizens from carrying weapons for their own defense. In past years, the relative murder rates in London and NYC were cited by the left as an argument for greater infringement of the RKBA (right to keep and bear arms) but some on our side pointed out that the disparity between the two cities was obvious as far back as 1800 – at least a century before Brits began losing the RKBA. “Multiculturalism” – which, in Britain, seems to have boosted drug trafficking and related gang activity – appears to have reversed the historical trend.)

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/...adiq-khan/