[jarym]

Nicely written article and I am sorry for what happened. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine some years ago and since then I don’t dare take my bag out during evenings.

Re The Met - it’s a sad state of affairs with policing in the UK. It comes down to the following: police only ‘care’ to investigate or deal with 3 types of criminals: 1. Terrorists 2. Paedophiles 3. Speeding motorists

If you wish to do any other criminality in the UK then you have pretty much free reign to carry out things with impunity. Government are even talking about abolishing jail sentences for ‘minor’ crimes (not to improve rehabilitation but to save money).

I am emigrating. I can see where things are heading and it’s not good for this country.

[rndgermandude]

You forgot

4. Steal swords from random motorists[1], find dangerous rusty butter knifes[2]

and 5. and occasionally give lectures about[3] and investigate[4] "hate speech"

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zmZqQFY.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/VhVQqQB.jpg

[3] https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/13/lecturer-reported-police-hate...

[4] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/south-yorkshire-police...

[davidmr]

Serious question: are there any large (say >2,000,000) cities in western-style democracies (for example, Singapore is quite safe, but I think their system of government makes it a little easier to fight petty crime) in which the police really do take that stuff seriously? It makes me think of that scene in The Big Lebowski where he asks the cop if they have any leads on his car breakin.

I completely sympathize with this guy, and hope I don’t wind up in his situation, but how seriously does any big city resident truly expect the police to take relatively small-value nonviolent property crimes?

[barry-cotter]

Tokyo

[antihero]

They have been pretty good for domestic violence issues and assault when I've needed them, though.