Mayor Sadiq Khan’s declare that cell phone thefts have been drivers behind knife crime in London insulted various British commentators on-line forward of the brand new yr.
Khan appeared on Sky Information Sunday the place he was confronted on the continued problem of knife crimes within the space. Whereas insisting that the quantity has gone down lately, Khan additionally pointed to cell phone robberies as the primary problem.
“The biggest personal robbery is of mobile phones. We know 20 or 30 years ago car manufacturers managed to reduce the theft of car stereos, reduce the thefts of the TomToms from cars by designing away the possibility of doing so,” Khan stated.
When pressed particularly on knife crime, Khan stated in response, “That’s because they try to steal the mobile phones.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan mentioned crime on Sky Information. (Sky Information screenshot)
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Social media customers pushed again on Khan’s look and rationalization.
“After a couple of softball questions about #NewYear2024, Sadiq Khan gets roasted on the appalling increase in knife and gun crime in London on his watch. Even Sly News have had enough of the useless pillock! I don’t think he was expecting that,” commentator Lee Harris wrote.
Fellow political commentator Alex Armstrong responded, “Just last night, New Years Eve, while Sadiq Khan was praising himself for the ‘work’ he’s done in London, a 16 year old boy was stabbed to death. He needs to go NOW.”
Former Mumford & Sons musician Winston Marshall requested, “What exactly is the difference between mobile phones in London and those in Birmingham and Manchester @SadiqKhan? Why do they lead to increase knife crime here but a decrease up north?”
Creator and journalist Peter Lloyd exclaimed, “Caught off-guard during a #NewYear segment with Sky News, Sadiq Khan gets skewered on the rampant gun and knife crime in London. He’s visibly shook. What a great start to the year!”
“Yes, one man can ruin a city. Did Sadiq Khan do it on purpose or is he a genuine moron?” author Alexandra Marshall wrote.
Metropolitan police knowledge discovered that normal knife crime with harm fell by just one% since Khan took workplace. ((Picture by Carl Courtroom/Getty Photographs))
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Current knowledge supplied by the Metropolitan police and the mayor’s personal figures notice that whereas gun and knife crime has dropped in London, it’s primarily in sure classes comparable to “knife crime with injury under 25,” regarding youth crime – whereas “knife crime with injury” broadly has solely dropped by about 1% from the beginning of the mayor’s tenure.
Khan additionally defined how he’s working with authorities to particularly goal telephone robberies.
“So if you can make a second-hand phone useless to a robber or a thief that means the temptation to do so is going away. Enforcement’s really important, so we’re using data now to make sure we have police officers targeting those parts of our city which we know are…hotspots. So it’s a combination of using data to target the hotspots, town centers, transport hubs, but also working with the mobile phone manufacturers and the platforms to make sure there is no resale value of a phone,” Khan stated.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Mayor Khan’s workplace for remark.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan described working with authorities and telephone firms to sort out cell phone firms. ((Picture by Kena Betancur/Getty Photographs))
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Fox Information’ Peter Aitken contributed to this report.
Fox Information’ Peter Aitken contributed to this report.
