{"id":83448,"date":"2026-01-12T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83448"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:10:52","slug":"londons-homicide-rates-hit-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/londons-homicide-rates-hit-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s homicide rates hit record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1U0O1n.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=913&amp;y=51&amp;s=46&amp;d=46\" alt=\"Shaftesbury Avenue incident\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">London<\/a>\u00a0recorded its lowest number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/homicides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">homicides<\/a> in over a decade in 2025, with 97 cases, an 11 per cent decrease from the previous year and the lowest total since 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/london-s-homicide-rates-hit-record-low\/ar-AA1U0I5q?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69655ea5aa024222b7a46bef03d84b54&amp;ei=71\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>London\u00a0recorded its lowest number of\u00a0homicides in over a decade in 2025, with 97 cases, an 11 per cent decrease from the previous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Met-police.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83449,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83448\/revisions\/83449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}