Is East London a dangerous place to live?

[aVdub]

Ashford, Kent, shopping centre cleaners and staff to be issued stab vests.

Bosses at County Square in Ashford have equipped “the entire front-of-house team” after a trial of the body armour last year was “well received”.

Gone from low level to this since dumping London's **** on everyone else

 

[Narj]

Romford/Hornchurch used to be decent now it's litter everywhere and very cosmopolitan. I grew out of wanting that as part of my life. Maybe just grew out of city life tbh.

Sounds like my area - the amount of crap just dumped by people on the street is horrific. Mattresses, bin bags, fridges - absolutely mental. It wasn't like this 5 years ago.

 

[potatolord]

.... In the 70s and 80s you had football hooligans fighting each other with knives...

One of my mates was a notorious football boy, and he used to tell some toe-curling stories. He used to routinely carry all sorts. Bumped into him in The Ninian one day before a game and he had one of those police type extending batons!

Hardly any of it got in the press. He did get mentioned in one if those 90s football hooligan books, mind.

He ended up doing time and losing his job over his shenanigans.

 

[Diddums]

Id stay away from east London.

It'd probably stay away from you too tbf.

 

[MatteH Oxford]

Yes.

I used to visit to watch West Ham play, there's definitely a lot more serious violent crime like stabbings and shootings than the 70s and 80s.

It's gangs and drugs to blame. Hardly any football scuffles to speak about because of the CCTV everywhere.