Table of the number of Serious Youth Violence Offences (victims) by London Borough from 2008 to 2012
| BOROUGH | Serious Youth Violence 2008-09 |
Serious Youth Violence 2009-10 |
Serious Youth Violence 2010-11 |
percentage change from 2008 to 2011 |
Serious Youth Violence 2011-12 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 235 | 213 | 207 | 237 | |
| Barnet | 195 | 227 | 193 | 207 | |
| Bexley | 117 | 88 | 101 | 210 | |
| Brent | 209 | 231 | 255 | +18% | 243 |
| Bromley | 226 | 204 | 172 | 164 | |
| Camden | 172 | 189 | 205 | +16% | 190 |
| Croydon | 288 | 342 | 299 | 301 | |
| Ealing | 237 | 261 | 213 | 204 | |
| Enfield | 278 | 328 | 357 | +22% | 293 |
| Greenwich | 259 | 218 | 217 | 183 | |
| Hackney | 278 | 257 | 205 | ||
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 112 | 133 | 148 | ||
| Haringey | 225 | 241 | 223 | ||
| Harrow | 113 | 107 | 115 | ||
| Havering | 141 | 137 | 159 | ||
| Heathrow Airport | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Hillingdon | 197 | 192 | 179 | ||
| Hounslow | 177 | 125 | 181 | ||
| Islington | 244 | 194 | 185 | ||
| Kensington and Chelsea | 73 | 72 | 85 | ||
| Kingston upon Thames | 127 | 100 | 103 | ||
| Lambeth | 321 | 351 | 407 | +21% | |
| Lewisham | 276 | 304 | 336 | +18% | |
| Merton | 124 | 146 | 115 | ||
| Newham | 299 | 343 | 372 | +20% | |
| Redbridge | 237 | 167 | 156 | ||
| Richmond upon Thames | 81 | 60 | 50 | ||
| Southwark | 411 | 469 | 509 | +19% | |
| Sutton | 129 | 104 | 97 | ||
| Tower Hamlets | 206 | 252 | 248 | +17% | |
| Waltham Forest | 271 | 302 | 301 | +10% | |
| Wandsworth | 191 | 218 | 196 | ||
| Westminster | 225 | 201 | 314 | +28% | |
| TOTAL per financial year | 6675 | 6777 | 6872 | +3% | 6906 (+0.5%) |
source Met Police FOI 2012 and London Police and Crime Committee // – offence numbers are dependent on reports being made and recorded by the police
Highest Serious Youth Violence Boroughs are: Southwark, Lambeth, Newham and Enfield. These boroughs demonstrated some of the largest increases in Serious Youth Violence from 2008 to 2011, however the figures are coming in to the end of the 2011-2012 financial year and Enfield has seen some good reductions in to 2012.
The Met police definition of Serious Youth Violence is any offence of Most Serious Violence or Weapon Enabled Crime, where the victim is aged 1 to 19
The Met police definition of Youth Violence is any offence of Most Serious Violence and Assault with Injury or Weapon Enabled Crime, where the victim is aged 1 to 19
London Teenage Murders 2005 to 2012
Most Serious Violence: Homicide and Child Destruction, Attempted Murder, Wounding or other act endangering life, Grievous Bodily Harm (Part), Causing Death by Dangerous/Careless/ Inconsiderate Driving, Causing Death by Aggravated Vehicle Taking.
Assault with injury: Actual Bodily Harm and other injury and racially or religiously aggravated ABH and other injury.
Thank you for this information. I seem to have heard a lot about how the Police, Southwark council and Mayor Boris have been tackling the issue of youth violence. They even try and tell us residents that it is decreasing but all along it has been increasing and in my borough Southwark, the worst for youth violence in London it has increased by a fifth. We have constant white noise telling us they are doing something but it keeps getting worse and worse. They keep spending money on so called community safety and policing but it all seems a complete waste.
Can we please get some people in who can finally make a difference, it has been almost 7 years since youth violence became a priority for Southwark but every year its worse!!!
Millions spent, lots of publicity, thousands of police hours. But youth violence still increasing.
The theories and approaches taken so far are obviously flawed. The one good thing is the level of gun crime has dropped like a stone.