Reposted by London's Violence Reduction Unit
The homicide rate for under-25s is now 3x lower than it was when I set up the VRU in 2019, and hospital admissions of young people for knife assault have almost halved in the same period.
London is safer thanks to the prevention work of @london-vru.bsky.social.
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