“The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV… the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm.”
You mean like having them stand there in the station with dogs to stop people for suspected drug possession? Y’know, “harmful” crimes. I know that’s not the only thing they ever do but they certainly do waste so much of their time with pointless stuff like that, at least in certain cities
Exactly what we need aswell, people being more discouraged to use bikes and forcing people even more into getting cars and making our already overcrowded and dangerous roads even more overcrowded and dangerous. Wonder if there’s an easy solution to stop people taking bikes from the bike lock up areas? Like hmm maybe having them all be properly secure and the station employing one or two people to keep watch? Nah silly idea…
What’s the purpose of that police then?
Protect the private train companies bottom line.
Social control and protection of property. (Not ours, though)
Protect the rich?
They’re in place to artificially inflate the donut economy.
Do British policemen also feed on doughnuts? I thought it should be some, I don’t know, pudding or something.
Ehh, half of 4 dozen of one, two dozen of the other. You know what, just make it 6 dozen to go
What is wrong with the UK? They don’t have a problem with putting video surveillance like the EU does, are they that incompetent?
“The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV… the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm.”
Interesting. Then they’ll stop investigating other vehicle theft, too, right?
Also, if you are going to “decriminalize” crimes like that, then at least “decriminalize” actions taken by people to prevent or recover their stolen property.
I mean, if you’re stealing it back, it’s also decriminalized?
It’s rare to see the law work in the victim’s favour, so stealing back your own bike would probably land you in jail (in North America, at least).
…but wait at least two hours first.
In the Netherlands we. have. bike. theft.
Quién inlived there I had my bike stolen at least once a year, I had a good grand total of over 10 bikes stolen in my life there
Stealing bikes is still a crime.
If it’s toouxh then basically police worries less about trivial stuff like soft drug use
Somehow I’ve never had that problem. Maybe it helps that I ride cheap-looking bikes (and use two locks when it’s for a longer time)
Local cops are absolute trash. When my house got broken into 3x, each time I was home, local cops did nothing. My dog protected me and drove off the intruders. People were casing my house, because someone shot and killed my dog in my backyard after the 3rd unsuccessfully break in. Still local police did nothing. I’ve had good experiences with the state police troopers in my area. I work in a NYS agency and my bike is parked right outside the state capital where there are cameras all the fuck over. When my bike got stolen the NYS police reviewed the footage, found the guy, (who was already out on parole,) and sent him right back to prison because he committed another crime and violated his parole. My bike was never recovered. I was able to file a FOI request to get the perps info, and eventually get a civil judgement against him. It’s a mixed bag, but you all should be agitating like hell to get shitty cops and shitty police chiefs removed.
