Coronavirus and crime
Discussion
"Police and fire rescue services could be forced to concentrate only on “critical functions”"
https://www.ft.com/content/920c8356-5d34-11ea-8033...
https://www.ft.com/content/920c8356-5d34-11ea-8033...
Shuvi McTupya said:
Evoluzione said:
CharlieH89 said:
Distracted by what?
It's been proposed that they only respond to the most serious of crimes.Government directive … Work from home
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Downloading "evidence" and putting into little brown envelopes can be done from home
Evoluzione said:
CharlieH89 said:
Distracted by what?
It's been proposed that they only respond to the most serious of crimes.I'm not knocking the Police, but after 10+ years of austerity and non-core functions being outsourced they're not what they were, in the last 10 years or so I've had cause to contact them a couple of time.
Garage broken into, £6k worth of expensive bikes taken, they couldn't spare anyone to come out, just wanted to give me a crime number for the insurance, I made a small fuss and they sent out a bored Bobby 2 days later who shrugged his shoulders and asked me what I wanted them to do. Locally at least, they don't investigate burglary anymore.
Assaulted by some face tattooed f
kwit after some daft road rage thing (him, not me) he followed me until I stopped and tried to drag me on the floor for a kicking, gave them the reg number, well as best I could, but they couldn't find it. Had to work out what it was myself (took 5 mins putting what I remembered into a proper reg number format to find it) gave it to them again, they sent someone around to talk to him, gave me the option to press charges, but warned evidence was thin and fkwit had his own version of the 'facts' and it likely never get to court. So they gave him a warning.Garage broken into AGAIN, this time they asked if they've left the lock behind (they hadn't) there was not point dragging them out, they're not dusting for prints for anything 'CSI' like that for non-violent thefts - took the Crime number and called the insurer.
Maybe I was naive but locally at least, they don't investigate burglary, at least from garages and sheds unless you have clear CCTV and they didn't seem bothered about minor assaults. They focus mainly on serious violent crime (anything that leads to life-changing injuries) Sexual assaults and Drug dealing (but not really effectively). I rarely see any 'Traffic Cars' unless I happen to be driving past a crash.
When we had the riots round here a few years ago it took about 2 hours for it to go from jungle drums, to face book, to texts to phone calls to people on the street to those people on the street kicking in doors and burning cars.
The police were just not able to respond quickly enough and it took them at least 4-5 hours to get the streets back under control.
Most of the lads out doing the robbing and arson were being directed by well known "individuals". In the end what did they get from it, sod all. But it reminded everyone in the local community who is boss I guess.
The average local walking down the street was safe, the locals made sure of that, but any place that had previously resisted protection demands were toast. Anyone who was a bit of a target but had previously been not worth the hassle, toast.
You see this is what most regular people who live in rural Hampshire don't get, there is a whole eco system in the rough areas and it takes one small thing and people will use it to their advantage.
In the city it was a bit more of a free for all, just kids really, and very little organisation just random looting.
If COVID 19 goes nuclear round here could we see the same again, yep I think so but maybe we will see the army brought out to guard shops and places that might be targets. The fact the government have been fairly quiet about their plans leads me to think they probably have something like this in place.
The police were just not able to respond quickly enough and it took them at least 4-5 hours to get the streets back under control.
Most of the lads out doing the robbing and arson were being directed by well known "individuals". In the end what did they get from it, sod all. But it reminded everyone in the local community who is boss I guess.
The average local walking down the street was safe, the locals made sure of that, but any place that had previously resisted protection demands were toast. Anyone who was a bit of a target but had previously been not worth the hassle, toast.
You see this is what most regular people who live in rural Hampshire don't get, there is a whole eco system in the rough areas and it takes one small thing and people will use it to their advantage.
In the city it was a bit more of a free for all, just kids really, and very little organisation just random looting.
If COVID 19 goes nuclear round here could we see the same again, yep I think so but maybe we will see the army brought out to guard shops and places that might be targets. The fact the government have been fairly quiet about their plans leads me to think they probably have something like this in place.
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