Notting Hill Carnival is the second biggest in the world, with 2,000,000 participants over 2 days.
Rio de Janeiro is the biggest with 2,000,000 per day over 6 days.
The arrest ratio of arrests to people is well below the normal UK arrest ratio during non-carnival times.
It's also well below the Rio Carnival arrest ratio.
On that basis alone, it could be argued that the Carnival is the safest place to be.
Mottie and others want it banned for their own bigoted reasons.
The Notting Hill Carnival started as a commemoration of the race riots when a black afro-Caribbean carpenter was murdered in 1959.
There were 1,200 arrests at his funeral, and his murder and subsequent events motivated an enquiry into race relations in UK.
There were accusations of police complacency and cover-up in the investigation of his murder. No-one has ever been arrested for his murder.