Crime
Crime rates in Bromley are generally higher than the National average, but it is considered one of the safest London boroughs.
Crime Rates in Bromley (per 1000 population)
| Offence | Locally | Nationally |
| Robbery | 3.01 | 1.85 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5.20 | 4.04 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle | 10.99 | 9.59 |
| Sexual offences | 0.98 | 1.17 |
| Violence against a person | 18.38 | 19.97 |
| Burglary | 7.06 | 5.67 |
Read more about this topic: London Borough Of Bromley
Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)