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>They then rose sharply to 118 in 2015 and 110 in 2016.[n 1] In 2017, there was a further rise to 131, although this included the combined 14 victims of the Westminster Bridge (5), London Bridge (8) and Finsbury Park (1) terrorist attacks. There were 132 homicides reported in London in 2018.
2015 and the subsequent years align with the 2015 European Migrant Crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis
During which the UK took a statistically significant increase in non-EU migrants. Getting the data right is tricky here, because what we are obviously looking for is not migration from Germans or Italians for instance, but from other groups. Violence in the cities rose in correlation to this migrant wave. Now, the screenshot from https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/2015-06-30 shows the sharp increase at the start in non-EU migration, and then through 2016 you see a similar increase: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/dec2016
>This difference was not statistically significant. Immigration of non-EU citizens was estimated to be 289,000, similar to the previous year, and shows that the gap between the 2 citizenship groups has narrowed in recent years increasing further.

What messes it up is the difference between EU and non-EU migration, the falling average of crime committed by natives, and rising crime of immigrants. Again, a similar spike in crime is found for the year of 2017, and then we have this:
>The year 2019 was reportedly London's bloodiest year since more than a decade, which recorded an eleven-year high of 143 people being killed. As of 31 December 2019, the number of homicides reported reached 149. 2021 broke the record set in 2008 for teen homicide. This was reportedly the highest rate since World War II.
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