Crime Costs

Crime cost Londoners £3bn last year, a report by campaign group Taxpayers Alliance claims. The study produced a statistical breakdown using Home Office calculations to showing the “inequality in the cost of crime” in the capital. It was found that crime in Westminster cost £650 per person while in Richmond it cost the public only £215 each. The group says London “urgently needs politicians to show civic leadership and enable the police to take action and replicate the radical reductions in crime seen in other cities such as New York”.