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London teens admitted to hospital with knife wounds down 55% since 2019
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Sadiq Khan's Violence Reduction Unit, a City Hall team tackling youth violence, says it has now helped one million Londoners. Khan said on Friday that its work, backed by more than £140million, shows violence can be prevented rather than just policed. Even so, the Met logged almost 14,000 knife crimes in the year to March 2026, about a quarter causing injury.
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