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 |
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)
“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)