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The reporting on the BBC says the other vehicle was one that had been the subject of a police pursuit after being spotted as suspicious. That doesn’t sound like driving for clicks.
Exactly and we seriously need to get some discipline back into this country and it should start in schools.
What's a "Section 60" order please?
No, S60 means the police can stop and search without suspicion.
Thanks.
The problem is that the proportion of the population who meet this description and cause trouble is essentially a rounding error in statistics, but still numerically significant enough to cause trouble.
Nope. And they never should. To misquote a famous saying: those who would give up liberty for the benefit of safety end up with neither.
In my experience a lot of it is due to underinvestment in intervention in early life. I live in the city centre and regularly during the summer we get kids/young people congregating in the evenings, and way too regularly it turns into fighting or other anti-social behaviour and the police having to get involved. I've spoken with a few of them and the thing I hear most commonly as to why they're there is "we're bored".
Aye our local bobbies are actually pretty good at this. Don't get me wrong, they'll move people on for stuff, but ragging 125s on the self-made jumps on the land which has been disused for 40 years isn't something they're going to get worked up about. They'll warn them about drinking and smoking dope, compliment them on their riding, and chat about the bikes, then leave them to it.
History says otherwise.
Yes, but the whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument isn't something one can say with a straight face when choosing to be anonymous on the Internet!
Indeed you are. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess a big part of informing that opinion is that you're not part of a minority or marginalised group which has historically been subject to stop and search for no other reason than being of that community.
When it comes to joyriders who cause terror and danger to others by driving at high speed on the wrong side of motorways/dual carriageways in an attempt to evade the Police, then some form of anti-surface missile would seem to be a good start! Presumably the military has something that could do the job.
My only objection to this is that innocents could easily be in the blast radius; otherwise it would be a cracking new series of Road Wars.
The police can stop and question you at any time without suspicion but equally you don't have to stop and answer their questions unless they actually arrest you. They can stop and search you only if they have reasonable grounds to suspect you are carrying something illegal like drugs, weapons or similar.
Well lets put some CCTV up in your living room, after all nothing to hide nothing to fear
Locking people up? I'm hearing that people, even violent criminals, are being released early because prisons don't have enough room or not enough staff. You have to try really hard to get yourself sent to prison and kept for your sentence these days.
And why is that? Because of the snowball effect of criminalising people early in life leading to them being stuck in a cycle that just results in more criminal activity over time.
