[thisone]

When kids were breaking into our power box and shutting off the power, trying to enter the house after I walked in the door (meaning I learned to be very, very quick in locking the door), and finally threw a brick through our window, the cops greeted my complaints with "what did you do to provoke them?"

(truthfully, I think my existing was the provocation. We signed a new lease somewhere else 2 days after the brick)

None of these laws are going to fix the problem which I think lies more with policing and with community than with not having enough laws.

[jon-wood]

All of those are criminal offences in their own right though - while clearly inept in your situation, the police don't require new powers to arrest someone for entering your house without permission, throwing bricks through windows, or vandalising power supplies.

[thisone]

I completely agree.

I know it's easier for the gov to publish new laws than it is to actually figure out what the underlying problem is and tackle that.

I think it's quite rare that the underlying problem is "not enough laws"

[dualogy]

Just so I never move there... what town was this?

[thisone]

The area of Darlington behind the stadium.

(Darlo itself has many perfectly nice neighborhoods, but where we were, in a new estate mind, was really not nice)