Personal Robbery rates and number of Personal Robbery offences for regions in England – 12 months to April 2011
| Region | Number of Offences in 12 months | Rate per 1000 population |
| East Midlands | 3497 | 0.8 |
| East | 3358 | 0.6 |
| London | 33290 | 4.3 |
| North East | 830 | 0.3 |
| North West | 5984 | 0.9 |
| South East | 4643 | 0.6 |
| South West | 2322 | 0.4 |
| West Midlands | 9414 | 1.7 |
| Yorkshire and Humber | 3753 | 0.7 |
The rate of personal robbery in London is over 4 times the amount of any other region in England other than the West Midlands which has less than half London rate of robbery.
What possible reason or excuse can there be for this?
These robbery concentrations are not in all parts of London but mainly concentrated in the inner city areas with Westminster, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark, Haringey, Brent, Camden having the highest robbery rates. No surprises that other than Westminster they are the more deprived areas but that is no excuse.
Maybe the London police are just bloody useless.
The widening gap between the wealthy and the rest of us demonstrates a failure of successive governments to protect the majority of its citizens from the transfer of their resources into the hands of a few. This state failure could provide sufficient reason to use robbery as the only means of dis-invested citizens to return resources back to themselves.
All very worthy BUT the majority of people who are robbed do not have a great deal of money either. The greatest concentration of robberies occur in the poorer areas not rich areas. Link to robbery rates in London
So robbers are hurting the poor more than they are hurting the rich. Guess that throws out the Robin Hood theory.
I hate having to walk from New Cross station to get home after a late shift. The constant fear of being mugged is too much
The West Midlands lead the way in these stats. They are the parts of the country with the highest concentration of citizens of Afro-Caribbean origin