Is London in the grip of a crime wave? It’s not so simple

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

• ‘Snatch theft’: the unstoppable rise of phone theft

London is no longer a safe place to live, at least in the eyes of some of its richest residents – and the 47th president of the United States.

“I think he’s done a terrible job,” Donald Trump said during his state visit to the UK last month, in his latest broadside at London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan. “Crime in London is through the roof.”