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Gromit
/// Really? Odd then that violent crime in US cities is no better than here.///
Some figures that may surprise you, these were from an article dated September 2009, under Labour's watch.
<<<Now mugging is worse in London than in Harlem>>>
<<<London s now more dangerous than Harlem, according to figures released yesterday.
The chances of being mugged in Britain' s capital are 25 per cent higher than in the once notorious area of New York>>>
<<<The Tories have found that in Harlem last year there were just 5.9 robberies per 1,000 residents.
Across London the figure was 7.4 attacks.>>>
<<<In some inner-city boroughs the level of street crime was even higher.>>>
<<<Lambeth, which includes Brixton, saw 24 muggings per 1,000 people - four times the Harlem rate.>>>
<<<Westminster - which includes Downing Street and Buckingham Palace - had 12 robberies per 1,000 residents.>>>
<<<'You are now more likely to be robbed in London than you are in New York's Harlem.>>>
<<<Latest Metropolitan Police crime figures show street crime is rising in every London borough>>>.
<<<In some areas it has leapt by more than 70 per cent in a year. By contrast Harlem - the traditional home of black New Yorkers - has seen a major fall in crime since the 1980s when it was dominated by heavily armed drug gangs responsible for a spate of murders>>>.
<<<In the last five years crime has fallen 60 per cent and the murder rate is down 72 per cent>>>.
<<<The fall in crime is attributed to tough policing - at times the area has been flooded with patrol officers to drive the gangs off the streets>>>