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by foldr 2712 days ago
How sure can you be that it's worse now if you haven't lived in Peckham since 2001? There doesn't seem to be any discernible upward trend:

http://www.ukcrimestats.com/Neighbourhood/Metropolitan_Polic...

The overall rate of violent crime in London is lower now that it was in 2001. And Peckham was a much rougher neighborhood in 2001 than it is now.