i kne albert davy
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As long as they're not sat next to them I reckon.Exactly. Hence the head shots. Some people would rather you asked them to come along nicely first though. Go figure.
As long as they're not sat next to them I reckon.Exactly. Hence the head shots. Some people would rather you asked them to come along nicely first though. Go figure.
I'm not disagreeing. Especially, if you are a bad guy sitting in your automobile. Your head is centre mass. It is what is getting shot at.Not really all that clever if they have a bomb strapped to their bodies hence the head shots.
Always funny to watch people see my screen name and think I’m having a pop because I work in Chicago now!Whereas in the US, there is total respect for the cops and the world is hunk dory. Give ya head a wobble son
I’m sure people will blame every social ill on someone else, but it’s long past time people stopped shaking their fist at “the man” and realized the mirror contains the answers.Certainly agree, but the rot set in with Maggie introducing the ' american ' free society !
All 9 of them covering the City centre on a Saturday night? There's fuck all about so god knows who you've been observing. I remember at Maine Road you couldn't move for coppers being everywhere, at the Etihad you're lucky if you see ten on a match day. You're right though, it's nothing to do with them being understaffed, every single one of them is a wanker who wants to be on the tv.
What do you do for a living pal? If every other week you got a day off cancelled and most working days were extended by an extra couple of hours, do you think you'd perform at your best?
Always funny to watch people see my screen name and think I’m having a pop because I work in Chicago now!
This wasn’t a comparison, and thank goodness my screen name isn’t GazaBlue, but an observation based on being raised in and around Manc and now visiting regularly.
There has certainly been some economic development, and I’m sure there are more than a few scripted who’ve managed to cobble together a few quid and feel like they’ve made it, but I stand by my observations of both Manchester, the gun/knife issue, and the lack of respect for police.
While I’m socially liberal, I’m strongly in favor of law and order. The days when people can walk down a street and not feel safe are here. That’s a sad indictment of life in the big smoke....wherever it is. Sadly, Manchester is there, as evidenced by yet another day of reading the Manc new headlines. Shootings again, the Verdict in the MGS student stabbing showing the knife crime epidemic has reached even the leafiest of leafy green suburbs, and the saturation of drugs (to numb the pain of living in Manc?) even within teenagers at MGS.
You can keep it!
reported violent crime is down ,but that doesn't prove if it is actually down or are less people reporting it due to a lack of action?I am not sure if the statistics back up your observations of the UK being any more dangerous than before, although that would depend on when before is of course. Can't find the stats for Manchester specifically, but for England and Wales, generally there has been, over the past few years a very small increase in violent and sexual crimes, but both remain at a level around the same as the early 1980s and way below the historic highs recorded in the late 1990's. Since the turn of the millenium, violent and sexual crimes have fallen gradually down from those peaks, although like i said there have been small increases in the past 2 - 3 years.
The point being, there is no crime epidemic (in the UK, again i don't have stats for Manc specifically), the media however are for some reason pushing an agenda that it is worse now than at any time before, this of course negatively impacts on peoples perceptions.
Drugs and drug use will continue to rise until the politicians realise that the failed war on drugs is unwinnable and they start to a realise that decriminalisation is the only logical route.
Probably more "hits" for a serious knife crime post than a story about social housing, or homelessness.I am not sure if the statistics back up your observations of the UK being any more dangerous than before, although that would depend on when before is of course. Can't find the stats for Manchester specifically, but for England and Wales, generally there has been, over the past few years a very small increase in violent and sexual crimes, but both remain at a level around the same as the early 1980s and way below the historic highs recorded in the late 1990's. Since the turn of the millenium, violent and sexual crimes have fallen gradually down from those peaks, although like i said there have been small increases in the past 2 - 3 years.
The point being, there is no crime epidemic (in the UK, again i don't have stats for Manc specifically), the media however are for some reason pushing an agenda that it is worse now than at any time before, this of course negatively impacts on peoples perceptions.
Drugs and drug use will continue to rise until the politicians realise that the failed war on drugs is unwinnable and they start to a realise that decriminalisation is the only logical route.
Think the general problem is the data sets that are available are inconsistent and flawed. If you look at the ONS website ...I am not sure if the statistics back up your observations of the UK being any more dangerous than before, although that would depend on when before is of course. Can't find the stats for Manchester specifically, but for England and Wales, generally there has been, over the past few years a very small increase in violent and sexual crimes, but both remain at a level around the same as the early 1980s and way below the historic highs recorded in the late 1990's. Since the turn of the millenium, violent and sexual crimes have fallen gradually down from those peaks, although like i said there have been small increases in the past 2 - 3 years.
The point being, there is no crime epidemic (in the UK, again i don't have stats for Manc specifically), the media however are for some reason pushing an agenda that it is worse now than at any time before, this of course negatively impacts on peoples perceptions.
Drugs and drug use will continue to rise until the politicians realise that the failed war on drugs is unwinnable and they start to a realise that decriminalisation is the only logical route.