More than 100 people were murdered last year, new crime figures have revealed.
Between 2013 and 2014, 108 people were killed in the capital - that's 12.8 people murdered in every one million.
Across England and Wales, 526 men, women and children died at hands of another person last year.
But, perhaps more surprising, London did not hold the country’s highest murder rate.
Bedfordshire, the region that includes the cities of Luton and Bedford, had the highest homicide rate in England and Wales last year.
The police term homicide covers murder and other types of killing including manslaughter and the killing of children under one, known as infanticide.
Regions around the Midlands came out as the most dangerous places in England, with higher murder rates than London.
One of the most shocking facts revealed by the figures is the huge number of women killed by the very people who are supposed to love them. Despite the stereotypes of stranger danger and the headlines around random street attacks, it’s partners who kill the most.
Almost half of all the women murdered last year were killed by their partners or ex-partners.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales continues to show steady declines in violent crime over the last 20 years. Between 1995 and the 2013/14 surveys, the number of violent crime incidents has fallen from 3.8 million in 1995 to 1.3 million in 2013/14.
Violent crime victimisation rates have also fallen by more than half since peak levels of crime in the mid-1990s. In 1995, 4.8% of adults aged 16 and over were a victim of violent crime in the previous year, compared with 1.8% in the 2013/14 survey.
Homicide has also shown a general downward trend since 2002/03. The number of currently recorded homicides for 2013/14 (526) and 2011/12 (528) were the lowest since 1989 (521). The number of homicides in 2013/14 was equivalent to 9.2 offences per million population.
