The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.
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Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Growing up in London was the best.
When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.