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Posted by: gel Nov 21 2018, 03:32 PM

No mention in NWN as yet
https://info.westberks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=35773

Posted by: je suis Charlie Nov 21 2018, 06:52 PM

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Posted by: x2lls Nov 21 2018, 06:52 PM

Smacks of Rotherham, Telford, Oxford.... The list goes on.

Posted by: SirWilliam Nov 21 2018, 07:13 PM

Face it the Country has gone to the dogs,wall or any other formulaic idiom you care to use. Sort of free for all where the points of law are so blurred that it is acceptable to break them and, as very few get caught, why should they worry. In the grand scheme of things a dodgy taxi firm is small fry compared to confronting a knife wielding yob.

Posted by: Strafin Nov 22 2018, 10:43 AM

I currently work in a very posh jewish suburb of Manchester. There were 4 knifepoint muggins this week and the police responded to none of them. They have now caught the alleged perpetrators so I will be interested to see what happens now.

Posted by: Strafin Nov 22 2018, 10:45 AM

It is on the NWN site now as well.

Posted by: SirWilliam Nov 22 2018, 02:46 PM

On a not dissimilar theme on this mornings BBC breakfast programme they had two girls who had been inappropriately groped on the underground; sat opposite was a member of the BR police who offered the advice that all such behaviour should be reported at the end of your journey. So you have already had a bad day and now you are asked to make it "worse" by arriving late for work because you have to find a copper and file the incident. In the land of constant camera surveillance why are these incidents not flagged up and dealt with before it gets to a victim involvement?

Posted by: newres Nov 22 2018, 04:46 PM

Is catching them not sufficient response for you?

Posted by: Andy Capp Nov 23 2018, 09:19 AM

I haven’t seen anyone say it is acceptable to break these laws, other than maybe those that endorse policies to starve services of financial resources to do the job required.

Unlicensed taxis is something that’s been around an awful long time and not a new phenomenon.

Posted by: Strafin Nov 23 2018, 09:31 AM

Nope. Responding at the time and preventing some of them would have been much better. They were caught by chance and the people concerned have all expressed that there was no response at the time.

Posted by: je suis Charlie Nov 23 2018, 11:57 AM

The corporates shout louder for what is a diminishing resource and the politicians hear their masters. The police claim they do not have the staff but even though they have lost staff over the last 10 years there are still meant to be more police per person than fifty years ago. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-figures-show/
Are politicians inventing too many new crimes?
Are the police doing work that they never used to do?
Are the police having to do more paperwork than before?
Is this why there are less frontline police than before?
All I know is that it would be better if police were seen on the streets and roads helping people without looking like RoboCop. A preventative deterrent rather than cleaning up after something had happened.

Posted by: SirWilliam Nov 23 2018, 01:34 PM

Not entirely convinced having a copper on every street corner will stem the increase in criminality; all that will happen is the criminal will go to the other end or find a new way to apply their nefarious ways. It would be interesting to know what proportion of the population would commit a crime if they knew they would get away with it. I am not talking violence but low level, eg not paying at the supermarket checkout or driving at 70 in a 30 area. Having answered that we are some way into eradicating this seemingly endless tide of antisocial behaviour. Or put another way is the punishment reflecting the crime? An increase in police numbers leading to a zero tolerance on low level crime for a short period of time may actually repay itself 5 years down the line. Once the petty stuff has been stamped out it will leave more resources for the big stuff and if these people are then locked away for a VERY long time it will send a clear message to the masses.

Posted by: je suis Charlie Nov 23 2018, 01:47 PM

Got a side window smashed on the drive one Friday night in what I can only assume was an attempt to steal the car. Police interest? Nada, zilch zero, **** all. Next time I'll tell them I'm burning a paper effigy of some flats, that'll ensure me the full complement of armed police, CID and a fully fledged SOC team.

Posted by: SirWilliam Nov 23 2018, 04:47 PM

Especially if you say you live next door to a "****" b******d and it's supposed to be an all white street. Guaranteed response.
To be honest it is not the police force's fault, they act according to the home office directives which is how it should be but somehow we have got our wires crossed.