LuniioLondon stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime
Knife crime in sharp decline
Brave Little Hitachi WandStop, stop, you’ll scare a conservative Londoner with language like that!
It’s generally not even Londoners re-posting crime “news” about the capital (we live there, so we know) it’s more certain people from rural areas who neither live, work or visit London.
Those certain people are either the ones who have a chip on their shoulder about how London is a success despite not catering exclusively to white native born people, or people who just got sucked into an alternate reality where they read so much crime news that everyone in London must get stabbed once a year.
There is also a healthy dosage of conflating per square mile and per capita crime
It’s probably russian bots and Americans that have never left the tristate area.
Be careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.
I’d like to think that the person from feddit.uk knows that!
I obviously don’t know you’re background either but FYI I’d say that this sentence does just refer to a generally conservative person. In the UK we don’t really refer to individuals by their party name directly like Republican/Democrat in the US etc. Someone who literally votes Conservative you might refer to as a tory, though there’s not really parallels to other political parties.
Sorry if this not news to you!
Regardless of the whole big c / little c argument I’d still be hard pressed to find one person that was alarmed with falling crime figures…
I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the poster meant a “knee-jerky, xenophobic, Reform / BNP / UKIP / English Alliance etc. voting Londoner” because, yeah, that headline would be counter to their narrative.
I think that’s exactly what they meant, and that they would be troubled by a headline that challenges their world view.
Almost. The thing with the conservative mindset (referring to right wing authoritarianism generally, not Tories in particular) is that they are motivated by fear of others. Sorry for causing confusion, I’m not from here originally and I don’t even make sense back home, sometimes.
The graph illustrates a divergence between real knife crime and fears about knife crime on X (where the blame is seemingly laid on monetisation of posts).
The dot I’m connecting mentally here is that preferential treatment is being given to fear-based posting about crime and minorities, which is exactly what you would do as a billionaire who wants to buy a mass media platform. A tale as old as semaphore, that.
So, the idea of a right wing Londoner getting spooked by suspiciously boosted, factually misleading scare content promoted by an even richer, more right wing bastard kind of makes me laugh. They’re driving each other crazier and crazier all the time, and ultimately it’s not all that funny.
Thanks for clarifying and sorry for speaking for you 😅
To be fair, as far as I can tell the stats here are a bit misleading. Hospital visits from kinfe crime are down, but general knife crime was at its highest in 2025. I don’t know what the specifics are of that though.
You’re good. I don’t mean to downplay the importance of tackling knife crime, but my view is just that it ultimately stems from economic inequality, rather than it being too easy to get knives or whatever. People in jail get stabbed too, after all.
That’s fair. I don’t have the knowledge to back it up but I would assume that a reduction in knife-based hospitalisations represents a reduction in gang violence even if there is still a lot of individual knife crime.
I’m no expert, but it seems IDing me for a seam ripper hasn’t solved the issue.