A State of Lawlessness
Discussion
I live in London (between where the Northern and Piccadilly lines end). If I'm not out everyday fitting windscreens during the week, I'm off to various football locations to manage the team my son plays for at the weekend. I get around. A lot. Not just locally (but all over the country for work).
Everyday I will see, blacked out windows (at the front of the car) incorrectly spaced characters on a registration plate; people looking down at their lap as they drive (clearly on the phone) navigation devices stuck to the windscreen directly in front of the driver's view; people on their phone (either very obviously or in a 'oh look, I'm talking to my phone' kind of way). Then there are the kids jumping around in the back of the car, the commercial vehicles in the outside lane full of payload; the truck with debris falling off the back; the car with bits of trim hanging off at a tangent to the car... I could go on and on and probably make a list of scores of 'offences' I see on a daily basis.
They do it because there is no deterrent, or they are really that dumb/ignorant.
Have we stripped our police force that much that we have become lawless on the roads?
Surely a strategy to pull every car over with on-the-spot penalties can't be that hard?
Or to some plod not care any more? Like the two I saw on the A12 who were behind a bloke watching a movie on a tablet balanced on top of his dash. They just weren't interested.
Everyday I will see, blacked out windows (at the front of the car) incorrectly spaced characters on a registration plate; people looking down at their lap as they drive (clearly on the phone) navigation devices stuck to the windscreen directly in front of the driver's view; people on their phone (either very obviously or in a 'oh look, I'm talking to my phone' kind of way). Then there are the kids jumping around in the back of the car, the commercial vehicles in the outside lane full of payload; the truck with debris falling off the back; the car with bits of trim hanging off at a tangent to the car... I could go on and on and probably make a list of scores of 'offences' I see on a daily basis.
They do it because there is no deterrent, or they are really that dumb/ignorant.
Have we stripped our police force that much that we have become lawless on the roads?
Surely a strategy to pull every car over with on-the-spot penalties can't be that hard?
Or to some plod not care any more? Like the two I saw on the A12 who were behind a bloke watching a movie on a tablet balanced on top of his dash. They just weren't interested.
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