A “hostile” crowd attacked London police with pieces of wood — one armed with a sword — after officers were called out to reports of violence at a “large” illegal gathering. The thugs then reportedly drove the unarmed officers off of Brixton’s lawless streets.
Four males have appeared in court after police officers in London were attacked by a crowd shouting “black lives matter”.
A British sociology professor has outlined the areas of policing that he believes the government should “immediately” defund, with the ultimate goal of completely eliminating law enforcement in the United Kingdom.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has arrested nearly 40 suspected online grooming paedophiles and have launched protective services to safeguard 138 children throughout the city.
A 47-year-old mother died just days after a man who claimed to have the Chinese coronavirus spat and coughed at her.
Three people are in life-threatening condition, including a 15-year-old boy, after a series of stabbings took place within the span of 90 minutes, covering the streets of London with blood.
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a man wielding a machete in front of commuters at a busy tube station in South London.
London must end its policy of politically correct policing to fight knife crime, David Kurten has said as he announces his run for mayor.
A 20-year-old man has been charged with vandalising a £20 million ($26 million) painting by famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.
The latest victim of London’s crime wave has been named as Flamur Beqiri, who was gunned down outside his London home on Christmas eve.
A senior rabbi was left bleeding on the ground after two teens brutally beat him while shouting “f*** the Jews” and “kill the Jews” in London.
The number of fatal teenage stabbings in London has reached an 11-year high, with 23 teenagers murdered since January.
Reports of sexual assault and other sexual crimes on Britain’s railways have nearly doubled over the past five years; however, most cases go unpunished.
BBC analysis has revealed that London has 16 of the top 25 knife crime hot spots in England and Wales.
The homicide rate in London this year is on course to surpass that of 2018, which had seen the highest level of violent killings in a decade.
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a pilot programme which would see women who have committed “lower-level, non-violent offences”, such as thieves and shoplifters, avoid jail in favour of receiving mental health and substance abuse support.
Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick has ruled out issuing tasers to all London Metropolitan officers despite it calls for better police protection after a series of violent attacks on officers.
A man in his 20s has been shot dead in broad daylight in south east London on Sunday.
The number of acid attacks at record levels, having increased over tenfold in six years, with young children among the victims.
A man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a stabbing outside of the Home Office on Thursday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to expand the police’s powers of stop and search across the country in a bid to tackle the wave of violent, particularly knife-related, crime sweeping the UK.
A serving British soldier was left with a fractured skull and other serious facial injuries after being attacked in the West End of London.
The child born after pregnant 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was fatally stabbed in Croydon, south London, has died.
A 38-year-old man has been stabbed to death after a fight in a London neighbourhood that one witness described as a “full-on battle”.
U.S. President Donald J Trump has said that the UK’s capital city “needs a new mayor ASAP” after three killings and three non-fatal stabbings in just 24 hours of Sadiq Khan’s London.
The Metropolitan Police Service has made ten arrests after two teen males were killed 12 minutes apart in different parts of London on Friday.
Sadiq Khan has presided over an “alarming hike in violent crime” in the three years since he has become London mayor, according to analysis by the Greater London Assembly Conservatives.
Three men were taken to hospital after a triple shooting on an east London high street on Saturday evening.
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has said that the return of ‘stop and search’ has helped cut crime dramatically in London.
London has faced another night of violence resulting in the killing of one teenager and another left in a critical condition in a double stabbing, while a third man was taken to hospital with a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in a separate attack.
A man has been charged with five counts of attempted murder following a spate of stabbings in the Edmonton area of north London during the last week.
The Metropolitan Police has questioned a 14-year-old boy in relation to six sexual assaults on women that occurred last month in south-east London.
A man in his 30s has died after having his “throat slit” in an argument over cigarettes in East Dulwich, east London, on Sunday.
A teenage boy has been taken to hospital after being stabbed on a bus in Clapham Common, south London.
Half of all knife crime in London is carried out by people aged 19 and under, and three quarters of offenders are from minority ethnic groups, the latest figures show.
Seven people have been arrested and three others rushed to hospital with stab wounds after a brawl broke out at a tram stop in Croydon, south London.
Court of appeal judges have overturned a two-year suspended sentence on a London teen who attacked a car with a large ‘zombie’ knife in broad daylight, ordering he be imprisoned for three and a half years.
The number of drug dealing ‘county lines’ have nearly tripled across the country in one year, while the networks are fueling the rise in London crime.
Official crime figures have revealed a 14 percent jump in the number of homicides recorded in England and Wales, with knife offences hitting the highest level in eight years.
British Transport Police figures have revealed that violent crime on London’s underground has risen by 43 percent in just three years, while the highest increase were weapons offences at 125 percent.
