Face to face with ‘lawless London’
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LBC has watched as a group of police officers arrested known offenders, seized two machetes, a flick knife, and Class A drugs in just three hours. We were invited to join the Metropolitan Police on an operation to seize illegal bikes and scooters in Northwest London but ended up following them as they responded to other emergency calls. They included reports that two teenage boys had been seen brandishing machetes on Kilburn High Road, which led to the discovery of weapons inside a barber shop. Two suspected drug dealers were also detained inside a coffee shop, for continuing to offend just 24 hours after one of them had been picked up by the same officers and released on bail. The findings have reignited the debate of whether London has become lawless, which Mayor Sadiq Khan has rejected, blaming a "blizzard" of online disinformation. But Conservative leader at City Hall, Susan Hall, told LBC: “There are not enough police officers. The numbers are going down but there's at leas
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