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Met police commissioner Mark Rowley says Trump talks ‘complete nonsense’ about crime in London<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Wes Streeting was not the only person doing an LBC phone-in this morning. Sir Mark Rowley<\/strong>, the Metropolitan police commissioner, was on too, and he used his interview to accuse President Trump of talking \u201ccomplete nonsense\u201d about London.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/strong> has regularly complained about the level of crime in London, apparently inspired by alarmist reports he has seen on TV or social media, and he criticised the city again in a recent interview with Politico<\/a>. He said he hated to see what is happening there, and he blamed the mayor, Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n

In an interview last month with GB News<\/a>, he claimed that there were areas in the capital that were no-go areas for the police, and he claimed sharia law applied there too. He even said the same thing in a speech to the UN in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rowley<\/strong> told LBC this morning<\/a> that these sorts of comments from Trump were \u201ccomplete nonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>There\u2019s no no-go areas, that\u2019s completely false.<\/p>\n

How anybody in America can suggest the UK is violent is completely ridiculous. The homicide rate in London is lower than every single US state. It\u2019s lower than all their big cities. The murder rate in New York last time I looked is three or four times higher than London per capita.<\/p>\n

The homicide rate in London is lower than it is in Toronto, it\u2019s lower than Paris, it\u2019s lower than Brussels, it\u2019s lower than Berlin.<\/p>\n

This is a safe city. I\u2019m not going to pretend it\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n

This trend of trying to rubbish London, some of which is driven by politics, we who are proud Londoners need to fight back about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rowley did not specifically talk about Khan, saying he did not want to intervene in a dispute between two politicians.<\/p>\n