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Answer is 'no', then....
sad you have such a negative perspective.......
Since 2006 we must have called the Police out at least 25 times for crimes such as damage to our cars (5 times, of which one of them was written off), damage to the bus shelter (finally fixed with fortifed glass) to drunks and street fights.
When the opportunity arises to take part in discussions, I jump to take part. It's hard to remain positive when the main stakeholder in getting the community involvment so crucial to helping resolve the issue wasn't there to harvest the support it needs.
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Phil, I'm not unsympathetic as I understand how corrosive petty crime and AB are, but I don't think it helps to blame the police
With the amount of calls we made, and the increase in crime in the area, you think that some sort of intitative from the Police would be mounted. I have volunteered for neighborhood watch, and other schemes only not to hear back from the Police. You think the Police would put pressure on the council to fund a CCTV camera that could cover a wide area, other than telling me to put one up on my property where it would only cover my property.
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I blame the Council......
I hold the council responsible as well, as I have spoken to them on quite a few occasions, only to be fobbed off. They hold the money to put in a CCTV camera, but refuse to address the issue. Again, the last piece of advice I got was not to park my car on the street as it wasn't safe to do so. What should I do, remove my front garden at a cost of several thousand pounds to make room for two cars, which will just eliminate one element of the issue, or do the right thing and address the entire issue of the anti social behaviour and put in the right deterent.
So NWN Reader, why should I be so "positive", as the issue isn't being addressed, and the support from the quarters it should be coming from isn't coming. The only winners in this is the council still collecting council tax for services they don't deliver, and my insurance company.