
One in four young people have been victims of crime in London in 2019
Westminster World looks into the number of young people affected by crime in London and whether they felt safe living in the capital.
The year 2019 in London has been overshadowed by knife crime, an increase in theft around the holidays and sexual crimes on public transportation. More recently the city experienced a terror attack at London Bridge, which has raised the question of personal safety among young Londoners.
A survey of over 300 London university students found that 1 in 4 young people has been affected by crime in London this year.
These results slightly differ from those gathered in the Youth Voice Survey undertaken by the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) in January 2019. The MOPAC survey showed that 1 in 10 (about 12 percent) of 8,000 young peop