In just
seven days this month, Greater London saw seven violent deaths. An appalling
snapshot of what is now happening to the crime rate, post lockdown. Homicide in
the capital is up 23 percent in the year to April - or to put it in a wider
context - knife crime is now fifty one percent higher than when records began
just under a decade ago.
Stop and
search has doubled in the last year too. It's without doubt one of the most
controversial responses to rising crime. All of this against a backdrop of
renewed questions over racial justice and policing sparked by the death of George
Floyd. In an exclusive film, Newsnight’s Richard Watson went on patrol with one
of the Metropolitan Police's newly formed violence suppression units.
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