‘Give people something to lose’: Is London a safe place?

We ask the people of London if they feel safe in the capital.

Transcript

00:00I'm not sure if you'd ever heard on the news, I think it was yesterday,

00:02about the guy with the sword, there was a violent attack.

00:05Just wondering how safe you feel in London, do you think it's a safe place?

00:09I feel like at the moment there's a lot going on with regards to knife crime,

00:16a lot of phone theft as well, I keep my phone in my pocket quite a lot of the time now.

00:22I don't tend to make a lot of eye contact with people at the moment,

00:27but I think that there needs to be something with regards to safety,

00:31I feel like the police do their part, but you can't police everything, can you?

00:36It feels fairly safe, I know there are decent areas in London, there are not so nice areas

00:41where you don't want to walk at certain times, but it's about knowing where you are,

00:45obviously if you're a tourist you don't know.

00:46I mean I've been feeling decently safe, but it's mostly because I'm with someone

00:52who's already kind of experienced and I can tell she's been avoiding certain areas very clearly.

00:57So I can tell that I've been going to safer places,

01:02I see some corners that might not look as safe as other ones.

01:05And if there was a way to improve safety in London, what do you think you would do?

01:10There probably isn't one answer, police presence would be one,

01:13but obviously yesterday the knife attack, everyone was there,

01:17but I think it would have to do with also resources being put into

01:22what young people are actually doing these days,

01:24so it could be trying to get them off the streets, give them something to do,

01:27a job, something to lose, so that you don't have people roaming around doing knife crime,

01:35and it should keep them occupied, actually have something to lose in society,

01:39where they actually wouldn't be good upstanding citizens.

01:42Obviously things happen for a reason,

01:45who knows what the guy was thinking at that time, there must have been something.

01:48In general in London then you think seven out of ten is safe?

01:51Seven, seven, yeah.

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