The Met

[Jazoli]

Last nights episode was probably the most boring and tedious of them all, very disappointed with it.

[andymc]

agreed, they always go onto more serious offending

[Nethybridge]

Jazoli said:

Last nights episode was probably the most boring and tedious of them all, very disappointed with it.

But much more indicative of the day to day stuff, weirdo flasher and
old lady getting mugged, it ain't all like The Sweeney, just real, dogged, police work.

Good to see the mugger off the streets, but for how long,
his mental health will miraculously take a turn for the better,
and he'll be released after a week, is there
any body more prone to gullibility than mental health professionals ?

[jtremlett]

Nethybridge said:

...Good to see the mugger off the streets, but for how long,
his mental health will miraculously take a turn for the better,
and he'll be released after a week, is there
any body more prone to gullibility than mental health professionals ?

But he shouldn't have been on the streets in the first place. They said he had been offending since 1968 with only gaps for when he was in prison. So why was he out unsupervised when they have a clear pattern of behaviour over 50+ years? It was a little unclear but sounded like the sentencing for previous offences meant he shouldn't have been wondering about anyway.

[Nethybridge]

jtremlett said:

ut he shouldn't have been on the streets in the first place. They said he had been offending since 1968 with only gaps for when he was in prison. So why was he out unsupervised when they have a clear pattern of behaviour over 50+ years? It was a little unclear but sounded like the sentencing for previous offences meant he shouldn't have been wondering about anyway.

Nowhere to put him, in days of yore, as a long term recidivist, a danger to the public and with
no hope of ever being rehabilitated he'd be put
into the care of the neighbourhood dark satanic asylum and
forgotten about.