Is crime out of control in your area?
Discussion
I had my bicycles stolen from my outbuildings in February, at the time the village we live in it was fairly big news, since then we are under siege masked raiders stealing safes, cars being stolen by using force is regular, I had my bike thieves back this week snapping the locks off, but they didn’t get them thanks to a steel door I’ve fabricated, with an internal lock, it’s also alarmed and ground anchors, they got into the kids/mower shed and nicked the boys RC car ffs!
I’ve also found my Wheels have been tampered with a week ago on my new Amarok, so I’ve put an additional set of wheel locks on.
They watch the mums go out to get the kids and they burgle the house, if they find the spare keys they have the car.
I live in what was a lovely village between Birmingham and Coventry, the whole borough is suffering.
Are other parts of the country getting the Wild West treatment?
I’ve also found my Wheels have been tampered with a week ago on my new Amarok, so I’ve put an additional set of wheel locks on.
They watch the mums go out to get the kids and they burgle the house, if they find the spare keys they have the car.
I live in what was a lovely village between Birmingham and Coventry, the whole borough is suffering.
Are other parts of the country getting the Wild West treatment?
WJNB said:
Given certain flexible goody goody policies by our government whose members mostly reside behind high walls, gated communities & yet-to-be infected suburbs as well as grand estates crime will be soon be universal & there will be no escape wherever in the country you try & escape to.
That's an incredibly grim outlook. Are you ok?rufusgti said:
That's an incredibly grim outlook. Are you ok?
He could be right, the rate of acceleration of crime, is astounding in our area, it seems to be everyman for himself, our friends have been done twice in 3 months, they took the car first time a new Merc, the car got found the guy is getting done for receiving stolen goods, but he has not given up who he got it from, he needs persuading.Our other friends also had a new Merc stolen, they had it around three weeks, they’ve given up on driving a nice car. My next door neighbor went golfing at 5 this morning, I was out of bed out the window the guy Two doors up was too, and my wife’s friend also we all have fried nerves.
Brummmie said:
We’ve had one this week that was high profile because they actually caught the scrotes, I won’t post the link as it’s against the rules, a woman in a Golf R, they smashed the drivers window and dragged her out, they then promptly crashed it!
I hope they were severely injured Wobbegong said:
Brummmie said:
We’ve had one this week that was high profile because they actually caught the scrotes, I won’t post the link as it’s against the rules, a woman in a Golf R, they smashed the drivers window and dragged her out, they then promptly crashed it!
I hope they were severely injured When we moved into our place in November 2015, it took 6 months before we saw a Police car patrolling our road.
Then some drug dealers moved in, car crime went up as did anti-social behaviour and we were getting the Police responding to 'something' in our street at least 3x per week. These guys got raided and moved on but since they've left it's got out of control.
Then the kids on mopeds started targeting the flats and apartments round here during the day whilst people were at work. I stopped the theft of my neighbours bike. Didn't stop them coming back for more. Somebody locally jumped him whilst he was on a stolen bike and held him down, Police were called and he was arrested. The other 2 were ran over by MET Police in a chase.
In the past 6 weeks 2 commercial vehicles and a Mercedes have gone missing, 5 minutes down the road an S5 was almost taken and I know of a few other cars that have gone recently including a Golf R the same as mine.
I'm not even in Birmingham, I'm in Sutton/Banstead, Surrey area.
It's getting worse. FOR SURE.
Then some drug dealers moved in, car crime went up as did anti-social behaviour and we were getting the Police responding to 'something' in our street at least 3x per week. These guys got raided and moved on but since they've left it's got out of control.
Then the kids on mopeds started targeting the flats and apartments round here during the day whilst people were at work. I stopped the theft of my neighbours bike. Didn't stop them coming back for more. Somebody locally jumped him whilst he was on a stolen bike and held him down, Police were called and he was arrested. The other 2 were ran over by MET Police in a chase.
In the past 6 weeks 2 commercial vehicles and a Mercedes have gone missing, 5 minutes down the road an S5 was almost taken and I know of a few other cars that have gone recently including a Golf R the same as mine.
I'm not even in Birmingham, I'm in Sutton/Banstead, Surrey area.
It's getting worse. FOR SURE.
Brummmie said:
We’ve had one this week that was high profile because they actually caught the scrotes, I won’t post the link as it’s against the rules a woman in a Golf R, they smashed the drivers window and dragged her out, they then promptly crashed it!
Is it, really?CBA to check. Sorry!
I grew up in Solihull and have always regarded it as a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
With regard to allegedly wishy washy policies on crime and punishment, there has over the last decade or more been an increase in the severity of sentences for many crimes, and prisons have been filling up. But this is an ineffective policy, as the USA shows (harsh penal system, still high crime).
Cuts to police resources and CJS resources are an important factor. As usual, the systems are expected to operate on a budget of a quid.
With regard to allegedly wishy washy policies on crime and punishment, there has over the last decade or more been an increase in the severity of sentences for many crimes, and prisons have been filling up. But this is an ineffective policy, as the USA shows (harsh penal system, still high crime).
Cuts to police resources and CJS resources are an important factor. As usual, the systems are expected to operate on a budget of a quid.
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 9th October 09:02
Breadvan72 said:
I grew up in Solihull and have always regarded it as a wretched hive of sum of villainy.
With regard to allegedly wishy washy policies on crime and punishment, there has over the last decade or more been an increase in the severity of sentences for many crimes, and prisons have been filling up. But this is an ineffective policy, as the USA shows (harsh penal system, still high crime).
Cuts to police resources and CJS resources are an important factor. As usual, the systems are expected to operate on a budget of a quid.
Massive police numbers don't seem to help the yanks either.With regard to allegedly wishy washy policies on crime and punishment, there has over the last decade or more been an increase in the severity of sentences for many crimes, and prisons have been filling up. But this is an ineffective policy, as the USA shows (harsh penal system, still high crime).
Cuts to police resources and CJS resources are an important factor. As usual, the systems are expected to operate on a budget of a quid.
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