UK: Police didn't have the money to catch burglars who beat me with a crowbar

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | May 17, 2008 | MILES GOSLETT

[Stoat]

The Met spends hundreds of thousands of pounds each year on diversity training.

Please say a prayer for the people of Great Britain

 

[Mark]

Universal health care. Stand in line— NO smoking!

[doc1019]

Will gladly do so in the name of Jesus …

[CindyDawg]

Our garage was broken into several years ago and some bikes were stolen. My neighbor tried to chase them down and one bike was found abandoned in a field. I asked for fingerprints. I was told I watched too much tv.

[coloradan]

This isn’t even a health care issue, it’s a police issue. Not only don’t police protect you, now they can’t even afford to work lead to catch suspects. Sad. Maybe they should disband the police over there.

[FFranco]

This is the kind of thing that happens when you have a Socialist government.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Gotta get 'dem priorities in order. Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review

"Islamic law permits men to have up to four wives at any one time - known as a harem - provided the husband spends [arranges for British citizens to provide the resources so that he can spend] equal amounts of time and money on each of them."

[My corrections]

[doc1019]

As someone that worked in law enforcement for over 28 years. The Cops that talked to you were speaking from experience. If they (robbers) were professionals, they wore gloves, if they were amateurs, their fingerprints would not, in all probability, be in the system

[CindyDawg]

You don’t know unless you check though. I got the impression that it was too much trouble.

[FreeperinRATcage]

You’re kidding, right? People that break into garages to steal bicycles are probably dumb enough not to wear gloves and have probably spent most of their lives going through the system.

Petty theft like that is either kids or druggies.

[Stoat]

Gotta get 'dem priorities in order.

A desperately, passionately depressing article; but essential and relevant, thank you.

This FR thread from April may also be of interest:

Great Britain Muslim is spared a speeding ban so he can drive between his two wives

[razorback-bert]

DNA opportunities that have been taken from the premises as a result of the offence.

Shakespeare that ain't!

[doc1019]

Considering all that is happening (crime wise) in our neighborhoods, mayhap this was something less than topmost on their radar? I know how must have felt, and rightly so, that it was topmost on your radar, however, priorities must be adhered to. Did you push the local police in this matter? Sometimes the police have to be pushed to get their attention.

Unfortunately, I worked in a large metropolitan police department so I have trouble relating to local, small town municipality departments and their priorities.

[Stoat]

Shakespeare that ain't!

Sadly, I haven't found our own American 'news' papers to be any better.  Decades ago, newspapers held themselves to an extremely high standard of literary excellence, to the point that word usage in newspapers was frequently cited when evaluating and judging the 'correctness' of grammar and sentence structure.  This is one of the things that has been lost in the news business, along with a dedication to objectivity.

It's sad to have to watch something die......although in many ways along with death comes a rebirth, at least in this context.  Although bloggers and 'newmedia' sources will oftentimes have a specific point of view, they are (usually) quite open and proud about that, and they are often quite proper in their use of grammar.....frequently far more so than the 'major' papers, at least in my experience.

[ccmay]

Thievery and assault are amazingly common in England now. The police don't even bother to leave their closed-circuit TV monitoring booths to fight it. About the only way you can get them to appear at your house in a hurry is to announce, "There's a ni**er in my home and I am about to shoot him." Of course, they will be racing over to arrest YOU, so you had better not use this tactic unless you are in real fear for your life.

-ccm

[MarkL]

Thank goodness this guy didn’t have a gun! Somebody might have gotten hurt!

Mark

[MarkL]

A friend's house in OKC was broken into, and they stole well over $8000 of property and ransacked the house. The police stopped by, took a report and left. They weren't in the house for more than about 10 minutes. No fingerprinting, no "CSI," no nothing.

Mark

[AlaskaErik]

Good thing he didn’t fight back and hurt one of the criminals or he’d have gone to jail.

[chuckles]

I just had a credit card number stolen this month. I got a call from the credit card and they asked if I bought a laptop, I said no. We canceled the acct and got a new card. I called Dell to ask them where they were going to send the laptop. I gave my name( they already had it) and my old CC number( of course they had it) and my phone number( they already had it). They asked my address and I said you just tell me where you were going top mail it to, they refused unless I said where I live. I said I live where you were going to mail it and I'm making sure its correct. They said tell us where that is and we will tell you if it matches. I said look, you aren't going to get paid, the number is bogus, and you are protecting a thief, now tell me where you were going to mail it. They refused. The Credit card co. fraud division contacted them and I don't know the outcome yet, but I bet they won't even go see who was going to pick up the laptop. I did find out his email is in Hanoi Vietnam. Dell did admit the addy was in the US.

Nobody cares.

[AlaskaErik]

As someone that worked in law enforcement for over 28 years. The Cops that talked to you were speaking from experience. If they (robbers) were professionals, they wore gloves, if they were amateurs, their fingerprints would not, in all probability, be in the system

Professionals don't steal bikes out of garages. That sounds more like dopers and their prints would more than likely be in AFIS. I see the same people come in and out year after year. There are simply too many burglaries and too few cops to properly investigate each and every one.