London continues to descend into a pit of violent and seemingly random crime under Greater London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Since 2016 when Khan was first elected, with the massive help of the ‘Apathy Party’ made up of those who didn’t bother to turn out to vote against him, crime in London has got more violent, more frequent and more random. It’s no longer criminal against criminal or thug against thug or street robberies and muggings that characterise crime in London, it’s random people minding their own business, teenagers who stray into the ‘wrong’ postcode area, or those trying to do the decent thing and stand up for the vulnerable.

The latest example of seemingly random and senseless violence to happen in the Capital is likely not to be a terrorist act, but just the usual ‘Khanage’ that we’ve come to expect from London under the current Mayor. There has been a double stabbing in West London where a woman in her eighties has been stabbed and seriously injured and a young man in his twenties who tried to protect the elderly lady has been murdered.

Sky News said:

A murder suspect has been arrested after a man was killed and an elderly woman seriously injured following stabbings in a street in west London.

The male victim, believed to be 20 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene in Brentford after witnesses said he tried to challenge the attacker on Friday evening.

The woman in her 80s, named locally as Betty Walsh, was reported to have been walking home from a friend’s house when she was stabbed.

Ms Walsh, a mother-of-seven and former barmaid who is originally from Ireland, was taken to hospital with stab wounds and police said her condition is serious but not life-threatening.

Speaking at the scene following the attack, the woman’s son told reporters: “This England. This is society,” as he asked police to let him through the cordon on Albany Parade to visit his family on the other side.

Her grandson had earlier left a bouquet of flowers at the scene.

A man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder on Saturday morning and is in custody at a London police station.

At this stage we do not know what motivated this man to stab two people and kill one of them. As I said I doubt very much that this is terrorism related. It could be a street robbery gone wrong or a crime carried out by one of the many violent mentally ill people that appear to roam London’s streets these days. We will not know the full details until this matter comes before the courts but this sort of violence is getting all too common in London since 2016.

There are very few police patrolling the streets and what police there are on the streets are policing by reaction, in other words they are not preventing crime they are only reacting to it. In addition to the issue of less police on the streets acting as a preventative measure, too many officers have been moved from front line police work and into nothingburger activities such as policing social media. In London there is a situation emerging, mostly due to Khan of course, where the police don’t police the streets they only police Tweets.

Whilst some may say that the number of murders in London is not numerically higher or abnormally high for a city like London, what has changed is the type of murders. They are seemingly more random and the victims less connected to the murderers than they maybe once were. Whilst some murders are able to be contextualised as domestic ones or fights that went wrong the sort of murders that seem to be plaguing London now are ones where there is little context other than ‘they were in the ‘wrong’ postcode area’, they ‘looked like someone else who someone had been targeting’ or they were ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’. These are disturbingly random murders with random victims and quite rightly frighten people. Sadiq Khan and the Met need to get a grip on these random attacks on random victims and maybe put more resources into making the streets safer and less resources into stuff that is little more than virtue signalling bollocks.