The brazen claim went uncontested and unnoticed by media for months, but Khan has now admitted it was incorrect and has ‘held his hands up’. London mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted it was an error for his mayoral office to claim that knife crime in the U.K. capital has fallen under his watch after the country’s independent statistics regulator revealed it had actually risen by 40 per cent.
A mayoral press release published back in July praised Khan’s leadership in reducing knife crime across the city since he took charge of City Hall in 2016.
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However, the Labour politician was found with his sticky fingers in the till after Ed Humpherson, director general at the Office for Statistics Regulation, said the claim was ‘incorrect’ and could seriously mislead the public. The stats agency director revealed his office was engaging with Khan’s team to issue a correction as knife crime has, in fact, ‘significantly increased across the relevant period’.
Khan’s office made the claim moments before the Office for National Statistics published the latest figures on knife crime across the capital which contradicted the statement.
According to the data, a total of 12,786 knife offenses were recorded in the year to March 2023. The figure had soared by 40 per cent on the 9,086 offenses reported in the year to March 2016. Knife crime has continued to grow across London under Khan’s stewardship, increasing to 13,503 offenses by the end of June.
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City Hall is understood to have dismissed the criticism initially, insisting that it was referring to knife offenses resulting in injury to under-25s. However, Humpherson further rebuked the mayoral office, stating it had not been clear on the source of the claims and had not reported the statistics in line with best practice.
Other recent data has revealed the crime wave enveloping the U.K. capital, particularly on the London Underground with Transport for London (TfL) reporting that crime on the network has increased by 56 per cent in the last year. A total of 10,836 offenses were reported between April and September this year including a dramatic rise in thefts and robberies.
Again, Khan denied he was responsible for the rise, and suggested that a mayoral office campaign urging people to report crimes had contributed to the inflated figures. BEAT PRESS CENSORSHIP AND DISTORTION BY POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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The percentage of Liberal White Brits who helped to elect this veritable time bomb would be disturbing.
Quite the interesting spin on labels, (Knife Crime)?
Let’s not dare refer to it as what it truly is as they run the risk of offending the crazed radical Muslims and sub-human Nigerians who are sticking people with knives for fun and recreation.
Just as in the God forsaken not so united states, we hear the Democrat tactful term (Gun Violence) so as not to offend ghetto rat Democrat negros shooting each other for reasons such as “he disrespected me” or again for fun, recreation, street creds and sport, yes societal decay has succeeded to that coveted level.
I view it as thinning out the herd and I’m not having any gun violence problem at all.
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