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Agreed about the lack of investigating minor crime. It will really bite hard as the cheeky little scallies (I'd use totally different language if I could) move onto bigger and better things.
Bike crime for instance is off the charts - there's no point owning a decent bike in London if you can't lock it up inside your house/flat (and who has room for that?!). Communal bike stores are like candy shops.

Had mine stolen but found it on gumtree - police did nothing about it. Would say because it had already been sold on but they didn't even get that far. Simply became another statistic.
Had cctv too, but I couldn't view it for data privacy reasons and with no police coming round to look at it it was useless.
 
You must realise the apathy towards crime isn't because the Police don't want to deal with it. It's because they no longer can invest resources they don't have against competing demands.

It's crap, agreed - But is not likely to change until everything really breaks badly (more so than now)
 
Police are only interested in bogus race card claims where they can get easy pickings. Any crime where they have to go out and investigate they just aren't interested.

When a local takeaway owner called me a racist for leaving a bad review on Google, the police were straight at my door. When I phoned and reported that my wheelie bin had been set on fire - "oh heres an incident number".
 
The arsonist was probably a member of another forum on the internet where their equivalent of pooing through a letter box is setting the person's wheelie bin on fire. Seems the most likely scenario.
 
See if simple isolated vegetable extracts like heroin were not artificially inflated in price by thousands of percent, then things like this would happen less often.

I don't remember the last time imported tomato puree or a crate of Panamanian bananas was worth £60 per gram. But the second a Kilo of heroin crosses an imaginary line it goes from being worth £500 per kilo, to £30,000+ per kilo ONLY because its a "controlled substance" lol. This unfortunately leads to deeper level crime such as stealing people's phones and stealing from family etc. This also damages the economy because real money generated through slavery is being spent on an artificially inflated product, but the elite don't care about that do they it's all theirs under POCA. It's just ridiculous what's happening.
 
Washout said:
Agreed about the lack of investigating minor crime. It will really bite hard as the cheeky little scallies (I'd use totally different language if I could) move onto bigger and better things.
Bike crime for instance is off the charts - there's no point owning a decent bike in London if you can't lock it up inside your house/flat (and who has room for that?!). Communal bike stores are like candy shops.

Had mine stolen but found it on gumtree - police did nothing about it. Would say because it had already been sold on but they didn't even get that far. Simply became another statistic.
Had cctv too, but I couldn't view it for data privacy reasons and with no police coming round to look at it it was useless.
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I think is same round the country, my old neighbour used to keep his motorbike in his lounge, a mechanical vehicle, as keeping it in his shed someone tried to grab it, and another neighbour keeps her pushbike in the electric meter cupboard which has a locked door.
 
UberTiger said:
To be fair, not sure it would be worth doing forensic analysis and full scale investigation for a wheelie bin fire.
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It seems you havent read what we said, these sort of crimes are the first step for a criminal, one day its putting a wheelie bin on fire, another day its throwing bricks through windows, then its stealing vehicles, then it might be killing or raping someone, they will keep going because there will be no reaction from law enforcement meaning they consider it ok to carry on going.
 
I am reading and following, and agree and confirm the accounts that many people have recounted and experienced. My point with the wheelie bin is would there be any way to follow up considering the probably lack of evidence after the fire has been extinguished? Just not sure what leads could be generated short of gaining access to some CCTV footage, which I assume there was none if the OP didn't mention it.
 
Well with a wheelie bin issue what I would expect is police attendance to gather evidence, which may or may not be fingerprinting the bin. Interviewing neighbours, and checking if any cctv.

If its happening repeatedly so lets say multiple fires a week, then I would expect active police presence as a deterrent and also as a means to catch them in the act.

Things like wheelie bin fires can be very serious to some people, if you a vulnerable person on your own in a property and people keep doing things with your bin like putting it on fire, can be scary and cause all sorts of social anxiety issues. So what may seem like a nothing crime to one person is not necessarily to another.
 
chrcoluk said:
Well with a wheelie bin issue what I would expect is police attendance to gather evidence, which may or may not be fingerprinting the bin. Interviewing neighbours, and checking if any cctv.

If its happening repeatedly so lets say multiple fires a week, then I would expect active police presence as a deterrent and also as a means to catch them in the act.

Things like wheelie bin fires can be very serious to some people, if you a vulnerable person on your own in a property and people keep doing things with your bin like putting it on fire, can be scary and cause all sorts of social anxiety issues. So what may seem like a nothing crime to one person is not necessarily to another.
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You might not get that level of service for a commercial burglary that has losses in excess of £10,000.
 
Yes there could have been CCTV or someone could have seen someone etc but police just weren't interested in attending. A neighbour's skip was set alight a few months later and I don't think anything came of that either.

But if some Turk kebab shop owner makes an allegation that you were racist towards him, the police are all over it trying to get you to admit to it so they can arrest you there and then. Nice easy way to full fill their target.
 
LeeUK said:
Police are only interested in bogus race card claims where they can get easy pickings. Any crime where they have to go out and investigate they just aren't interested.

When a local takeaway owner called me a racist for leaving a bad review on Google, the police were straight at my door. When I phoned and reported that my wheelie bin had been set on fire - "oh heres an incident number".
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The cynic in me thinks that there maybe more to this little anecdote than you're letting on - perhaps with certain details omitted...
 
LeeUK said:
Yes there could have been CCTV or someone could have seen someone etc but police just weren't interested in attending. A neighbour's skip was set alight a few months later and I don't think anything came of that either.

But if some Turk kebab shop owner makes an allegation that you were racist towards him, the police are all over it trying to get you to admit to it so they can arrest you there and then. Nice easy way to full fill their target.
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Firstly, it's nothing to do with the police not being interested. If they had the resources they would visit each crime and investigate fully, but they don't. this isn't down to the police, it's down to the budget they have. They have to prioritise some calls over others.

If you're in a verbal/physical altercation with the owner of a kebab shop owner there is a risk to life, they will prioritise that over a wheelie bin fire that had been dealt with by the fire brigade.

If you're angry about the level of service, vote differently or join up as a special constable to help your local community.

In my experience, the only people to have a negative opinion of the police are those that have been on the wrong side of them and are unable to admit it was their fault, always easier to hate and blame someone else.
 
Gaygle said:
The cynic in me thinks that there maybe more to this little anecdote than you're letting on - perhaps with certain details omitted...
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AHarvey said:
Firstly, it's nothing to do with the police not being interested. If they had the resources they would visit each crime and investigate fully, but they don't. this isn't down to the police, it's down to the budget they have. They have to prioritise some calls over others.

If you're in a verbal/physical altercation with the owner of a kebab shop owner there is a risk to life, they will prioritise that over a wheelie bin fire that had been dealt with by the fire brigade.

If you're angry about the level of service, vote differently or join up as a special constable to help your local community.

In my experience, the only people to have a negative opinion of the police are those that have been on the wrong side of them and are unable to admit it was their fault, always easier to hate and blame someone else.
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There was no risk of life! I used the takeaway regularly until a time they gave me food poisoning which I left a lengthy review about on Google. Fast forward a couple of months and I ended up going in with a mate one night who wanted food. I relented and decided to order some cheesy chips thinking I can't go wrong with them. Then all of a sudden the owner comes out the back refusing to serve me because of the review and told me to leave. I said OK fine and went and sat down while I waited for my mate to get his food. Next thing I knew the police were at my door the next day claiming I had been racist towards the kebab shop owner. I said I hadn't and that was it, nothing came about it after that one visit. All they wanted was to arrest me purely on me incriminating myself.
 
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