And for those with longer memories, the idea of London having a higher murder rate than New York is particularly scary because in the recent past the American city was a byword for violent crime. Crime rate is calculated by crime per 1,000 population. London crime rate. London crime: the number of homicides in London has reached its highest rate this decade (Image: GETTY) There have been 125 recorded murders in the capital in 2018. There were over 910,000 reported crimes across all the London boroughs between February 2018 and February 2019. Media caption Tottenham MP David Lammy tells Today the London mayor is yet to visit. Emergency services were scrambled to Albert Place, off Tottenham High Road, at 1.20am on Saturday. This is an increase of around 20,000 crimes to the previous year and a rise of 150,000 crime since 2014/15. London’s homicide rate has reached its highest level in a decade as police chiefs ... We are turning tide against violent crime in London, ... Teenager dies a week after being stabbed in Tottenham. A young man has been stabbed to death in an alleyway off a busy high street in north London. Tottenham riot: a community blighted by drugs and gun crime It is perhaps no coincidence that Mark Duggan, the man whose death sparked scenes of violence and looting in Tottenham … All the latest crime news in London, UK and throughout the world with the Evening Standard with crime scene information and police investigation updates