The national statistics for England and Wales show the overall picture and statistics for the whole region.

Arguably Greater London-wide crime is mostly higher but looking at the national trend, showing a reduction is re-assuring.

These yearly statistics are published in June and cover a range of crime:

Incidents by main crime type

It seems every crime has increased between 2 and 26% whilst homicide has decreased by 3%.

Firearms offenses

Please read up the whole document on the ONS website.