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Do Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, PM Brown and Met Police care about crime?

bethnalgreenresident | 07.01.2009 01:37 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World



Why the question?
Obvious, isn't it?

If you try to live in East London then the question is obvious.

And if you have to move home because crime takes over the space outside your home, then you would want to know..

In East London, the Tower Hamlets Community Housing has been congratulating itself on a national aware it was given for providing high quality service.

This is news to the residents on the THCH estates.

For years the estates and streets have been occupied by gangs of anti-social youths. No action is taken. Police are not really interested. So the quality of life is low.. And there is no SIGN of any change in the foreseeable future

All the political parties are in agreement: the best policy is to let the crime fester and let the criminals prosper. And the let the community sink


Wonderful life in East London. Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith and the London mayor have been guaranteeing it to the people…

bethnalgreenresident

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I might be paranoid here..but

07.01.2009 09:37

the areas in which gangs are allowed to rule unchecked seem to me to be valuable. Are they trying to get people to move out of the area prior to developers (who no doubt will have full police back up) moving in? Sad to say but if I was a young person in such a climate I might carry a knife to protect myself and I'm sure that many join gangs for the same reason. It's utterly tragic, just imagine though if all those people put their energy into activism rather than who has dissed whose trainers, no wonder the powers that be let them scrap over petty irrelevant crap and get off their faces.
Funny thing is that a vivisectionist in law under SOCPA has more protection than for example a bus driver, shop worker or health worker all of whom face threats and violence on a daily basis. This is where the priorities of the police and government lie, protecting large corporations. Ordinary folk (unless they feel "harassed" by activists) are not important in the scheme of things and whilst no-one is supposed to "take the law into their own hands" the police often refuse to fulfill their part of the bargain unless someone is actually murdered or they are not required to attend a demonstration/follow activists home/ bug activists homes...
A friend found a man stabbed in Oxford, he waited an hour for the police to come, they did not bother although I myself and many others have had 2 police officers each tailing us for hours even after protests are over!
Credit where credit is due though I saw 2 men force their way into a house opposite mine, heard a woman scream, saw her raise a frying pan and hit 1 of them with it, the police response was immediate, fair (the PC ascertained that boyfriend of woman was late home and pissed, she wanted to teach him a lesson by not letting him in, he forced his way in with his mate she walloped him) and proportionate albeit a false alarm.

Lynn Sawyer

Police availablity

07.01.2009 11:58

If the police hear there is an animal rights protest going on,, they will then come in droves, what a pity they do not react so speedily and with such numbers when a crime is committed yet they can muster such numbers when a legal protest is taking place!

anon