[manishsharan]

I wonder how the London police manage to keep order without carrying guns ?

[rayiner]

Because western European cities are vastly less violent: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/lets-hold-off-cel....

Baltimore, where I live, has 25x the per-capita murder rate of London. Chicago has 13x the murder rate. New York, the safest large city in the country, has 3x the murder rate.

[rubenariz]

B-more the city that bleeds.(I live there too) That said, the murders usually occur in the same bad areas over and over. If you live in a good area, you notice it only on the evening local news.

[revelation]

I don't get the connection, it's not cops being killed at a higher rate.

[mc32]

Because outside of rural areas guns and permits are extremely hard to come by, so the cops don't need to presume a threatening person has a high likelihood of having a gun.

[mxfh]

Because the general public isn't expected to be armed with firearms either.

[DanBC]

  There are several armed criminal gangs in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom