Do Londoners feel safe in the capital?
We asked the people of London if they feel safe in the city they live in.
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00:00 So I'm not sure if you heard the news about Harry Pitman on New Year's Eve, quite a big story.
00:03 Yeah.
00:04 And there's been quite a few other murders recently as well.
00:07 Yeah.
00:07 How safe do you feel, remember?
00:09 I personally feel perfectly safe, but then I'm probably most quite likely to feel safe.
00:17 You know, I'm a man.
00:19 Women are obviously subject to far less safety than men are, I think, typically.
00:27 I think it's tough for young folks, you know, by that situation.
00:30 It's really grim.
00:32 But personally speaking, I feel safe.
00:34 Touch wood.
00:35 I do feel safe in London.
00:36 When I was a kid in Australia, I did not feel safe going out in the evening as a young woman.
00:44 I don't know.
00:45 I just feel like because it's a crowded city, I do feel usually pretty secure.
00:51 But then I have an 18-year-old daughter, and now when she's going out clubbing and all
00:56 sorts of things all the time, I can't sleep until she's home.
00:59 I think that it's worrying the level of violence.
01:03 But if I'm honest, on a personal level, I don't feel it particularly too badly.
01:09 I'm born here.
01:13 Probably second generation Caribbean.
01:17 So I've found it a challenge on and off, demographically and socially.
01:27 It's OK if you know where you're going.
01:32 You know the areas.
01:33 You know the people.
01:34 You have a mentality that each area can sort of possess, I guess, in that way.
01:42 If you're young, you've got to watch yourself.
01:47 I think for the young, and for a long time, for maybe three, four decades, a lot of things
01:53 have changed.
01:54 Now youth clubs, blah, blah.
01:55 Talk about how safe London feels at the moment.
01:56 Do you feel safe in London?
01:57 Well, out of 10, seven.
01:58 Six or seven.
01:59 What do you think could be done to make you feel safer?
02:00 Well, the obvious answer is more visible policing.
02:01 And there's an awful lot of negative publicity about the police.
02:02 And I think that's a big problem.
02:03 I think that's a big problem.
02:04 I think that's a big problem.
02:05 I think that's a big problem.
02:06 I think that's a big problem.
02:07 I think that's a big problem.
02:08 I think that's a big problem.
02:09 I think that's a big problem.
02:10 I think that's a big problem.
02:11 I think that's a big problem.
02:13 And there's an awful lot of negative publicity about crime being investigated, which I would
02:21 agree with, but without any real evidence of it, I suppose.
02:24 But you don't see police on the streets like you used to.
02:27 You see them in cars occasionally.
02:29 But you used to see police walking around.
02:31 Though I felt more secure when it was like that.
02:33 Sometimes it feels a bit dodgy walking around in the dark.
02:37 Or if you're a young guy.
02:38 I mean, I'm 60 now.
02:40 But I think if you're young and you're out and you're partying and you're going to clubs
02:44 or areas where people are having a few drinks or smoking some stuff, then I think it'd probably
02:49 get a bit leery.
02:50 And maybe we wouldn't put it that high.
02:55 You get into scrapes when you're younger, when you're a teenager in your 20s.
02:58 You don't get into scrapes at my age.