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Female Inmate Sexually Assaulted By Violent Trans-Identified Male At Washington Women’s Prison

A female inmate at the Women’s Correctional Center in Washington has come forward to reveal that she was sexually assaulted by a violent transgender sex offender who was transferred into the women’s prison in 2021.

For the purposes of this article, the female inmate will be referred to as “Mary” in order to protect her privacy and prevent her from experiencing institutional repercussions.

Reduxx was provided Mary’s testimony through letters she passed on to an internal source, who then relayed the information out of the institution on her behalf.

Mary explains that the incident occurred in April of 2022 after a transgender inmate named Christopher Williams asked to be moved into her cell. Williams had previously been serving his sentence at a male facility, and has a criminal history including sex offenses and violent assault.

“Christopher asked if he could move into my room because he said his current roommate was bullying him … I had no issues with him being a transgender. But then he would make weird comments like ‘it hurts when it fills up with blood,’ like he wanted me to know when he was having an erection.”

Mary says that she became increasingly uncomfortable with Williams’ behavior towards her, which had a near-constant sexual undertone. At one point, Williams appeared to become frustrated with Mary’s lack of interest in him, and started issuing disturbing threats of sexual violence.

“He said to me, ‘I don’t know why you don’t want [my dick]. Everyone else does.’ Then he started to follow me into the bathroom. And one time he told me, ‘Just so you know, I can get you wherever I want.’”

Mary says she was voicing her concerns to staff, but was “pretty much being ignored.”

Christopher Williams. Photo Source: Penacon.com

The situation took a turn for the worse after Mary was prescribed sleeping medication to help with her restless nights. She says she noticed that Williams began to sit next to her bed at night after she took her medication. One night, she was woken up to the sound of an officer pounding on their cell door, demanding to know why Williams was sitting next to her bed. Mary speculates that the officer likely saw Williams touching her during her rounds.

“I’m not sure how many times he touched me because of my [meds]. But one day I came back to my cell from a work shift and he had two strap-on dildos and asked me to use them on him. I refused. That night, I was woken up to him touching me.”

Mary says she went to correctional staff immediately and told them what had happened. A search was conducted of the cell, and the sex toys were found. Mary then filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) report, which was determined to be substantiated. Williams was taken into segregation, and eventually moved out of Mary’s cell.

“In October or November [2022], we were both in the medical clinic waiting room and he was glaring at me. Then he blocked the only exit and was just staring at me, like he was trying to intimidate me.” Mary goes on to note that the facility appeared to want to keep the incident under wraps.

“They acted weird about it… like they wanted to keep it secret, but the [PREA] was founded.”

Williams, who has not changed his legal name or sex, was reportedly transferred into WCCW around the same time the facility saw a wave of transgender males being moved into the female estate in 2021.

Prior to being transferred to WCCW, Williams was incarcerated at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen, Washington, where he was serving a sentence for assaulting another inmate. 

As previously reported by ReduxxWilliams was charged in 2012 after brutally attacking a man named Christopher Barrett while serving a sentence for failing to register as a child sex offender.

The attending officer wrote that he had been called by Williams’ cellmates after they heard the confrontation. Barrett was found covered in blood and with a “gash in his head,” and Williams immediately admitted to the assault, stating: “I did it. It’s me, it’s me.”

Christopher Williams. Photo Courtesy of the Washington Department of Corrections.

Williams admitted to having struck Barrett multiple times with his fists and elbows without any apparent provocation, stopping when Barrett let out a “death scream.” 

The victim’s injuries included damage to his ear, which reportedly had to be cut open in order to relieve the severe swelling occurring under the skin.

Barrett also had broken bones under his eye, a gash on his cheek requiring “extensive stitching to close,” a missing tooth, and a nose that had been so damaged that he required emergency reconstructive surgery.

Speaking to Reduxx, a source within WCCW has said that the Department of Corrections (DOC) is largely in denial about the issues surrounding trans-identified male inmates being housed with women.

“They present it as a historic and successful arrangement. They did a trial run on some new bras they want to make available to order and they picked as many trans inmates as women. They have hired a ton of expensive staff to help the trans population and created a special orientation packet for them,” he says.

“They hint that there have been ‘some challenges’ but mostly present this as a success. Staff and inmates are in agreement that it’s a horrible thing.”

The source has previously informed Reduxx that there are currently almost one dozen male inmates at the facility. Of the 11 names provided for review, 9 were convicted of crimes against women or children. The source states that this reveals the extent of the problem.

“These incidents further show the women at WCCW that they don’t matter, and that their safety isn’t as important as making the trans inmates happy,” he says. “DOC is clearly running scared of groups like Disability Rights Washington that are always threatening a lawsuit. Meanwhile the trans inmates are playing DOC for fools.”

He continues: “The women and staff at WCCW do whatever they can to quietly fight back but constantly fear retaliation. Current housing policy and practice allows the individuals to pick their cell mates so the trans ones usually befriend more vulnerable women and pick them as cellmates and exploit them and end up in relationships full of domestic violence and control.”

One such instance of “exploitation” was committed by Princess Zoe Andromeda Love, a biological male with a criminal history that included the rape of a 12-year-old girl. 

Love was transferred into WCCW in 2021 where he reportedly sexually assaulted a developmentally disabled female inmate just prior to his release. According to a former correctional officer at WCCW, many of the files associated with the incident were “erased” from the system.

Reduxx reached out to the Washington Department of Corrections for more information on the precautions being taken to protect women from trans-identified male inmates. In a statement from the Media Relations Manager, the DOC stated it “strongly emphasizes the importance of inclusion and representation by recognizing the unique challenges that non-binary and transgender incarcerated people face. DOC takes allegations of crimes seriously and any person incarcerated at DOC suspected of committing a crime, is subject to the same laws and investigations regardless of where they are housed or their gender.”

The statement continued that “a common myth perpetuated about people who are transgender is that they will commit crimes of assault against vulnerable populations. This is not the case.”

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-female-inmate-sexually-assaulted-by-violent-trans-identified-male-at-washington-womens-prison/

Is Austria becoming a country of beer addicted communists? The rise of two fringe parties might suggest so – but disillusionment with the mainstream Left is a better explanation

Marco Pogo, singer of Austrian punk rock band Turbobier and leader of the BIER – Bierpartei Oesterreich (Beer Party Austria), poses next to an election poster for BIER – screen grab youtube

It is often forgotten, but when it comes to populist politics, the small country of Austria is a bellwether.

Almost everything we hear nowadays from politicians like Trump, LePen, Orban and others was already said in the early 1990s by the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).

Between 1992 and 1993 the party initiated a petition supported by almost half a million people that demanded a more restrictive immigration policy, stricter citizenship laws, and more money for the police. The name of said petition was – unsurprisingly – “Austria First.” 

It is therefore worthwhile taking a fresh look at what is going on in Austria, for it might offer us a glimpse of what is to be expected in future elections throughout Europe.

In recent months, two new parties have begun to mix up the political scene in Vienna.

One is a satirical project by the physician and musician Dominik Wlazny – who campaigns under the name Marco Pogo – that runs as “The Beer Party,” borrowed from the name of Pogo’s rock band, “Turbo Beer.”

It is already a well-known voice in local Vienna politics with slogans like “make Vienna drunk again” and the promise to build fountains dispensing beer instead of water. Mr Pogo managed to get a respectable 8.3 per cent in the 2022 presidential elections, coming in third place after the two main party candidates. 

The second “new” party that has begun to make waves is the reformed Communist party (KPÖ), calling itself “Communist Party Plus.” The plus stands for the Young Greens, a radical wing of the Green Party that has been ejected from the mother party and now forms a unity bloc together with the communists.

The Communists had a major electoral victory in Austria’s second largest city, Graz, where they won mayoral elections in 2021. In March 2024, the party’s candidate made it into the run-off election for mayor of Salzburg, another urban centre and the country’s fourth largest city.

All of these successes have to be taken with a grain of salt. Austria has not all of a sudden become a country of beer addicted communists, and the fact that new parties did well in local elections is due to the charisma of the party leaders and often very specific regional issues like housing or welfare.

Whether any of this can be translated into a bigger role in national politics remains to be seen, and according to the most recent polls it does not seem particularly likely.

The Communists are at three per cent (below the required 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation) and the Beer Party at 6 per cent, cannibalising votes of each other.

Furthermore, both parties lack a nationwide infrastructure and reliable candidates – something that will be difficult to address before the next federal elections this fall.

The Austrians favorite protest party of choice remains the FPÖ, which continues to lead the polls with almost 30 per cent.

The significance of the Beer and Communist parties is less their programme but the fact that they reflect a dissatisfaction with existing options not just on the Right, but also on the Left.

The Greens (currently polling at eight per cent) have been neutered as a protest party due to their junior membership in the coalition government with the conservatives (the ÖVP). The Social Democrats are a party without a programme or identity, continuing their march into irrelevance like their sister party in Germany.  

The main take away reflects the broader political sentiment we can observe all over the West: People are dissatisfied with the existing parties, allowing newcomers a realistic chance to gain seats in national and regional elections.

We saw this too with the limited success of the Pirate Party in Germany or the more impactful Five Star Movement of Giuseppe “Beppe” Grillo in Italy.

What all these parties share in common is that they are less defined by a cohesive party programme or a clear-cut ideology, but their quality as protest parties.

If, as in the past, Austria is a first mover when it comes to populist movements and their chances for success, the elections in the autumn should be watched carefully all over Europe. 

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/03/is-austria-becoming-a-country-of-beer-addicted-communists-the-rise-of-two-fringe-parties-might-suggest-so-but-disillusionment-with-the-mainstream-left-is-a-better-explanation/

Spanish Prosecutors Seeking 2.5-Year Jail Term for World Cup Kisser

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Prosecutors are gunning for a former Spanish Football Federation chief,  seeking a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after he grabbed a female footballer and kissed her on the lips. With Spanish laws allowing terrorists to avoid prosecution and rapists to walk free before serving their sentences, a conversation on proportionality might not go amiss.

Last year, football captain Jenni Hermoso led the Spanish team to an August World Cup victory, culminating in an unwelcome kiss from Luis Rubiales, The event led to an outraged discussion on sexism across the West. Hermoso said the kiss was both unwanted and demeaning. Rubiales has denied any wrongdoing.

If he is convicted of kissing Hermoso against her will, he could spend 30 months in jail.

Some might wonder why, if this is deemed fair, Spanish lawmakers have been so keen to let certain violent offenders off the hook; in particular, Catalan separatists who have carried out terrorist acts. Provided these have not caused “a serious violation of human rights”—which leaves a fair amount of scope for interpretation—they can live without the fear of prosecution.

Separately, the Socialist coalition government recently enacted a law, supposedly designed to better protect women against sexual violence, which saw hundreds of rapists, sex offenders, and paedophiles released from Spanish prisons before the completion of their full sentences.

Feminist writer Jean Hatchet argued that some time behind bars was justified in Rubiales’ case, not least because it will send a “clear message”; that “if you’re a man in a position of power over a woman and you are sexually aggressive,” you will “get in jail.”

While it is hard to find a public figure who has queried 30 months’ imprisonment as potentially a step too far, the lenient treatment of predators and terrorists suggests a loss of all sense of proportion.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/spanish-prosecutors-seeking-2-5-year-jail-term-for-world-cup-kisser/

It’s Ramadan in Germanistan – I don’t think they can be saved, the German Catholic idiots, they have delved so deeply into masochism

by Giulio Meotti

In the first century, the historian Sallust wrote of the Roman Republic: “Decadence and arrogance are the natural dividends of prosperity.”

These are also Western dividends and Ayaan Hirsi Ali is right when, in her lectio this week named for Russell Kirk, she attacks the “suicidal degeneration of the West”.

They want to make everything collapse, without caring about the avalanche that will inevitably overwhelm them too, she asserted.

This week the London Underground stations (“the most anti-Semitic city in the West” according to Israel) began broadcasting the time of Islamic prayer with the Hadith of the day. The poor traveller, looking for the train timetable, finds a saying from the Prophet Muhammad instea.

But if you thought it was an English specialty, like the gray sky of London or fish and chips, you were very wrong!

“Those who feared a creeping Islamization of Germany will feel relieved,” says the Swiss Weltwoche. “Frankfurt am Main is the first city in the Federal Republic to hang Ramadan lights. The mayor Verde of the city speaks of lights ‘of the union against discrimination’. The fact is that while Christmas trees disappear in nurseries, Christmas parties are canceled in schools for reasons of religious tolerance and crosses disappear from buildings, elsewhere everything is being done to make Islam more and more visible in Germany”.

In Frankfurt, 15 percent of the population is already Muslim. In the great postmodern void, Islam gallops forward.

“The public lighting for Ramadan in Frankfurt and Cologne is wonderful” comment the German Catholics. I don’t think they can be saved, the Catholic idiots, they have delved so deeply into masochism.

Meanwhile, as a by product, anti-Semitism flares up.

After Frankfurt, Cologne: anyone walking through the streets of the cathedral-city will see crescents, the words “Kareem” and “Ramadan”. The city where Benedict XVI made his first papal journey.

And the SPD proposes to light up Berlin for Ramadan as well. Why not, given that in Berlin there are just 9 percent of Catholics compared to 10 percent of Muslims? In the German capital, Islam has already overtaken Catholicism.

And it doesn’t matter that the majority of Germans are against submission.

We read from Konrad Adam, former editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and correspondent of Die Welt: “The old Lutheran church in Kolk, one of the oldest places of worship in the city of Wuppertal, will be sold. Like most buildings in my hometown, it was destroyed during the war, rebuilt and only recently fully restored. It is no coincidence that the Barmen Declaration was born in Wuppertal, the first and most important document with which the evangelical Church expressed its resistance to the Third Reich.

“But today there is no longer much evidence of such faith. Muslims have outnumbered Christians and two mosques have sprung up where a church was closed. Turkish travel agencies line up along the Gathe, one of the main streets, interrupted by a Turkish kindergarten so under Turkish supervision.

“This is where the ‘Sharia police’ was born, which requires women during evening patrols to cover their heads, wear long dresses and be submissive to their men. And here, on a vast abandoned site, Ditib, the German branch of the Turkish religious authority, wants to build its new central mosque, a huge complex with a kindergarten, youth home and apartments for the elderly, for 30 million euros.”

Meanwhile, the muezzin is also at home in Aachen, the city of Charlemagne and his cathedral. The city is changing the names of its squares to make room for Islam. Moscheeplatz is the new name of a square wanted by the mayor in agreement with Ditib, the German organization headed by Erdogan: “I am very happy as mayor to have a Mosque Square”.

Every morning I hope that Muslims do not end up totally spreading over a West emptied of meaning. I hope, but put not your faith in my hope.

It’s Ramadan in Germanistan | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

Germany: Foreigners responsible for 100% of serious sexual assault cases in Frankfurt, 57.4% of all crimes

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The new crime statistics from the German city of Frankfurt contain shocking figures regarding foreigners and major crimes, including one particular figure that shows they are responsible for 100 percent of all serious sexual assault crimes and 57.4 percent of all crimes.

The data shows that even for the worst crimes, well over half of all suspects are foreigners — those without a German passport. The rest of the suspects, 42.6 percent, are German citizens, but it is important to note that the data does not track whether these German suspects have a migration background, as Germany does not record this data.

When it comes to crimes against life, 54 percent of cases of murder were committed by foreigners, while they were responsible for 64.8 percent of cases involving manslaughter.

Sexual crimes

When it comes to serious sexual crimes, foreigners are also vastly overrepresented, with the data showing they were also responsible for 64.1 percent of all rape cases. In one of the most extreme data points from the new statistics, foreigners were responsible for 100 percent of serious sexual assault cases.

In cases of sexual harassment, foreigners were responsible for 64.4 percent of cases, while foreigners were responsible for 57.1 percent of cases involving abuse of minors

Responding to the crime statistics, Police Chief Stefan Müller said: “The fuse in conflicts is short, and mutual respect is increasingly being lost. People are prepared to get into physical confrontations very early on.”

Robbery, theft and trafficking

Foreigners were also vastly overrepresented in robbery cases, including 65.5 percent of robberies, 75.6 percent of aggravated robbery, 93 percent of car thefts, 87.5 percent of handbag thefts, 93 percent of pickpocketing cases, 87.5 of violent burglaries, 80 percent of daytime burglaries, and 72.9 percent of street thefts.

Foreigners also committed 75 percent of money counterfeiting crimes, and 62.5 percent of sexual blackmail cases.

Foreigners were additionally responsible for 83.3 percent of human trafficking cases and the same amount of forced prostitution cases.

A police spokesman for Frankfurt told Germany’s Bild newspaper: “We have the airport here. This is a gateway. If we exclude the violations of immigration law from the statistics, we have a proportion of 57.4 percent of non-German suspects.” This number is far above the national average of 35 percent.

Frankfurt has a higher proportion of foreigners than the rest of Germany, but as a result, it may showcase what awaits the rest of Germany should the foreign population continue to grow. It is also not the only state experiencing this troubling development.

Nationwide and state-level trend

Federal crime statistics also show that foreigners are vastly overrepresented in serious crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and assault.

And last week, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann stated that foreigners are responsible for a vastly higher share of crime compared to their share of the population.

“We will not accept the increase in crime, even if it is a nationwide trend for which foreigners and immigrants are particularly responsible,” Herrmann said in a press release on Monday last week. “The crime statistics make it clear that uncontrolled immigration also has a negative impact on the security situation.”

“It is particularly important to take those foreigners who pose a threat to public safety out of the country as quickly as possible after serving their sentence. In addition, we finally need a fundamental change of course in asylum policy and, above all, an effective containment of illegal migration,” he added.

In regard to sexual assault and rape, women are increasingly victimized in Germany due to mass immigration. Data released earlier this year shows that 8,590 women and men were raped or sexually assaulted by foreigners since 2015.

Responding to the data, Christian Democrat (CDU) MP Christoph de Vries, who is also a member of the Interior Committee, said: “It is obvious that the risk of women becoming victims of rape or other sexual offenses in Germany has increased significantly in recent years due to asylum migration from Arab and Maghreb countries.”

The co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, told the NZZ that the numbers are “unbelievable” and that “behind every case there is a terrible personal fate.”

https://www.rmx.news/crime/germany-foreigners-responsible-for-100-of-serious-sexual-assault-cases-in-frankfurt-57-4-of-all-crimes/

Britons furious as Central London covered in ‘Happy Ramadan’ lights over Easter

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Ramadan lights on display across central London over the Easter weekend has prompted concern over support for other major faiths during important festivals.

Lights in Oxford Street and between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square were switched on earlier this month by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

It is the second time the Muslim celebration has been marked with lights in London.

The lights which read “Happy Ramadan” are funded by the Aziz Foundation, a charity founded by Asif Aziz.

The property developer owns sites including the London Trocadero located between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.

The display has received praise but also sparked questions over why an Easter feature has not been put in place ahead of this weekend.

Writing on social media, one person said: “Insult to everyone who is Christian, they have never done Easter lights for us.”

Another said: “We are a Christian country. Easter is one of the main feasts in the Christian calendar. It should not be overshadowed by other religious events.”

While a third added: “Ramadan lights at Easter. This is cultural displacement.”

Paul Swaddle, leader of the minority Tory group on Westminster council, offers full support to the Ramadan lights but challenges why Westminster’s city hall offices do not feature an Easter display.

“The thing I would question is this: there has been a Ramadan celebration in the window of Westminster city hall. But I just wonder if the Easter one is going up very soon?” he told The Telegraph.

“Easter is one of the most important Christian festivals of the year but what are they [the Labour council] doing to celebrate it? I am not aware they are. I suspect the window display is not going to change.”

Ramadan occurs at a different time every year due to the alignment of the Moon and this year Easter falls within the same month.

A spokesman for Khan said: “Sadiq is proud that as Mayor he’s stood up for Londoners of all faiths, taking part in a host of festivals and celebrations, including around Easter. He’s attended churches around both Christmas and Easter, while visiting church-run foodbanks.

“The Mayor’s office continue to help facilitate the world-famous staging of the Passion of Christ in Trafalgar Square, which attracts thousands of people every year.

“Sadiq is immensely grateful for the hand of friendship offered to him by Christian friends and neighbours. This Sunday, Sadiq looks forward to joining a local church congregation as they celebrate Easter.”

Westminster City Council added that it “routinely supports” a wide range of other faith activities throughout the year including Christmas, Easter, Palm Sunday, Eid, Diwali and Hanukkah.

A spokesperson said: “The council supports festivals from different faith communities throughout the year, and the Ramadan lights form part of that activity.

“The West End hosts millions of visitors a year from around the world and these lights will add an attractive extra dimension to Oxford Street for those who observe Ramadan and those who don’t.”

https://www.gbnews.com/news/ramadan-lights-london-easter-celebration-fury

‘What’s wrong with London’: Cricketer Kevin Pietersen and many others ask as violent street crimes spike in UK capital

SS from video posted on X of the knife attack in a train in London (L), England cricketer Kevin Pietersen (R)

On March 28, Thursday, former England cricket captain Kevin Pietersen took to X to voice his concerns about the staggering rate at which street crimes in London are rising.

Resharing a post by @CrimeLdn, which had posted a video of a recent knife attack on a train in London, the cricketer labelled London as “a disgrace of a place”.

The video shared by @CrimeLdn showed a man brutally stabbing another in a broad daylight attack on a train in London. The incident took place between Shortlands and Beckenham on a train heading to Victoria on Wednesday, March 27. The victim was reported to have serious injuries.

“WTAF is this now in London?!?!?! London was once the most amazing city. It’s an absolute disgrace of a place. • You cannot wear a watch of any value. • you cannot walk around with your phone in your hand. • women get their bags and jewellery ripped off them. • cars get smashed in for a quick smash and grab. • there’s this rubbing in the video below. @SadiqKhan must be really proud of what he’s created?!” Pietersen captioned his post.

Internet users were horrified by the audacious crime that occurred in the U.K.’s largest metropolis, that too in broad daylight. “London has become a ghetto run by gangs and criminals, but the mayor of London is concerned with ULEZ because, of course, climate change,” wrote @cevizor, expressing concern over the fact that London had become the epicentre of street crime while the government had looked the other way.

Many other X users also blamed the London government for the rise in street crimes in the city.

However, harsh it may sound the truth is that street crime has been rising in London over the last few years. In fact, last month, Indian renewable energy entrepreneur Devin Narang created quite a buzz after he said that people are apprehensive about wearing their expensive Rolex watches, especially in the poshest areas of London like Mayfair due to the risk of being mugged for their expensive watches.

Though he had not personally been targeted on his numerous trips to London, he said between five and eight Indian businesspeople have told him they have been mugged in the past few years.

Data from Watchfinder & Co. last year revealed that between 2015 and 2022, the number of stolen watches in England and Wales nearly doubled, from 6,696 to 11,035.

More than 6,000 of the thefts in 2022 took place in London.

Among the most well-known targets was Amir Khan, the former world boxing champion who was coerced into giving up his £70,000 Franck Muller watch during an armed robbery in east London in 2022.

Similarly, in an interview with The National in 2023, founding director of Beauchamp Estates Gary Hersham, who deals with high-end clients from the Gulf, stated that London must control crime if it hopes to continue being a global hub that draws in foreign investors.

“London is competing with other wealth centres around the world to attract investment, visitors and new full and part-time residents so the provision of security for both residential and commercial property, and controlling crime, is extremely important,” he said.

“Destinations such as Monaco, Dubai, Qatar and Abu Dhabi are popular with wealthy residents and visitors because security is taken extremely seriously.

Rowley is the representative for a region of Westminster Council that is near the Middle Eastern-populated Edgware Road neighbourhood of central London.

The borough is also home to a few of the city’s most wealthy neighbourhoods, renowned retail avenues, and many of the tourist attractions that draw in approximately 4.5 million people annually.

It is, however, also the “most dangerous” area of London, according to the CrimeRate database, with a crime rate that is 215 per cent higher than that of the entire city and 265 per cent higher than that of the entirety of England and Wales.

Data shows knife crimes and theft in London increasing exponentially year after year

According to Met Police data, the region saw a 32% increase in crime in the year ending in April compared to the same period in 2022 with theft being the most common offence.

Data shows that throughout the same period, stealing increased by 66% and robbery by 34%.

In comparison to 2021, knife crime increased by 25% in 2022 and 12% from March to April of 2023, the data revealed.

With 2,834 offences and an 8 crime rate in 2023, other theft is the most common crime in the City of London, according to CrimeRate. This represents a 25% increase over the 2,260 offences in 2022 and a 1.60 increase over the 6 crime rate in 2022.

Moreover, knife crime is common in London, with some of the city’s wealthiest neighbourhoods serving as hubs for robberies and knife crimes. The most unsafe location in London is the Westminster Council neighbourhood near Edgware Road in the heart of the city, with a crime rate that is 215% greater than that of the entire city.

Along with knife crime, “theft from a person”—a category that includes stealing watches, handbags, and cell phones—rose by 27% in 2022 compared to the previous year. Metropolitan Police statistics show that in the year ending December 2023, there were 72,756 such instances in the capital, up from 57,468 in the year prior.

Mayfair, which is located in Westminster, has been especially hard hit; last year, theft from an individual increased by 40%. In 2023, there were 25,650 of these instances, as opposed to 18,310 in 2022.

Police have documented a wave of watch and cell phone thefts committed by gangs riding mopeds and e-bikes.

To be honest, based on the information above, it’s safe to assume that pickpockets, con artists, and muggers have made London into a hotbed of petty crimes, freely robbing locals and visitors alike. However, these facts are not even worth a debate to the pseudo-liberals who are otherwise eager to discredit India. Recently, one such group of anti-India trolls trended ‘What’s wrong with India?’ on X, where they used petty crimes happening in India to show it in a bad light.

It is questionable if the Western media, which has always been eager to disparage India, would turn inward and voice worries about problems that exist in their own countries as well. Take London for example, which has developed into an epicentre for petty crimes as well as organised crimes like drug smuggling and financial fraud.

Cricketer Kevin Pietersen questions mayor Sadiq Khan over spike in street violence in London (opindia.com)