"London has become so unsafe with kids behaving like gangsters, stabbings out of control and the police are totally ineffective. Thieves know their are no consequences and run amok, day by day, week by week, month by month London becomes more and more lawless."
I think I have heard people say that in ever decade I have lived in London and of course there is some truth. But it is also true that the homicide rate in London has halved in the last 20 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_London).

Birmingham and Manchester have higher homicide rates as does Glasgow, Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, Montreal, Boston, etc
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ci...icide_rate)
Basically you are less likely to be murdered in London than virtually any other major city.

Perhaps 'safer streets', 'well behaved youth', 'reasonable police' just doesn't make good headlines. The headlines are made when this isn't the case.

Here's some interesting figures from across the England and Wales / UK.

Murder rates in 1980 and 2019 are about the same, but in 1980 you were twice as likely to be killed by a lawless out of control drunk driver, today you are more likely to be murdered than killed by a drunk driver. The point is that although drink driving was illegal in 1980 'everybody did it' - there is no better definition of 'no consequences and run amok' than the behaviour of motorists in the 1970s, 1980s, etc. People today are so much more sensible and law abiding with their motor vehicles and their levels of intoxication.