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Under Mayor Sadiq Khan of London, the number of people murdered has reached its highest level in a decade.
In 2019, a total of 149 people lost their lives in London.
That was the highest homicide rate in London since 2008 when 154 people were killed in the capital city.
There were 90 victims that were stabbed to death.
The number of people killed by knives was up from 55 in 2014.
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Gang-related murders have risen sharply during the mayoralty of Sadiq Khan, with 42 people dying in gang-related crimes, more than double that of 2014 when 17 people died in gang crimes, reports The Guardian.
In 2018, Mayor Sadiq Khan launched a £500,000 “violent crime unit” in response to the knife crime epidemic sweeping over the city. The founder of Anti-Knife UK, Danny O’Brien, said that the mayor’s response was inadequate to deal with the problem.
“He’s said that he’s going to try and save the problem but in reality, he hasn’t got a clue what to do. He starts something, throws money at the problem but doesn’t know what the problem is,” O’Brien said.
“Politicians as a whole just simply aren’t doing enough,” he added.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Service said in response to the surge in knife crime that “tackling violence that involves knife crime is the number one priority” for the police.
