Apparently Crime in London is at a ten year low: http://urdunews.wordpress.com/2...

		TomOfTTB on Sept 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: London’s Surveillance Fails - Only 1 Crime Solved ... Apparently Crime in London is at a ten year low: http://urdunews.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/london-crime-rate-d... But the police don't seem to be giving CCTV credit for that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1 So I think it's one of those "draw your own conclusion" situations.

compared to other major world cities it is still astonishingly high though.