More Broken Britain?

[youngmafbog]

Something needs to be done about this.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6169859/Masked-thugs-throw-moped-rider-bike-repeatedly-stomp-head.html

[dannyk13]

Bring back the cat-o-nine tails for this type of crime,Utterly disgusting.

[retrocop]

Wonderful. The faces are pixelled out. Now doubt some police spokesman will be asking the public if any body recognises the attackers so as to assist with their enquiries.:-(

[Jackdaw33]

Unless it was one of the thugs who took the video, the person would have been better using his phone to call the police PDQ.

[Jordyboy9]

Danny says bring back the birch I agree I have said this for years,

[ToraToraTora]

dam savages should never see the light of day again.

[ummmm]

Broken Britain isn't new. I lived in a town centre pub and watched scraps most weekends from my living room window. This was the 70's/80's. There has always been violence on our streets.

[dannyk13]

ummmm, but not the gratuitous violence that we are witnessing these days.

[retrocop]

This is no alcohol fuelled pub brawl. This is aggravated robbery.

[douglas9401]

^^Phew, that's a relief then, thought it was new. ^^

[retrocop]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Aggravated assault not robbery

[sanmac]

But, ummmm, isn't there a big difference between drunken fights involving the "lads" outside the pub after a night of drinking and these gangs of thugs roaming around the streets in daylight viciously attacking and robbing people?

[ummmm]

Yes, of course there's a difference. It's just that violence has always been around. Drunk, sober, whatever, some people are just nasty. It wasn't always drunken fights I witnessed. People can get vicious about something as simple as cue jumping. Look at the amount of road rage attacks where alcohol isn't involved. People have been killed for cutting someone up. This isn't new.

My dad was attacked on his way home from the pub. No reason whatsoever, they kicked him round like a football. Nasty people have always existed.

[dannyk13]

ummmm, agreed but not to the extent that we see these days..

[jackthehat]

I have personally witnessed no more than I witnessed years ago.
What I *am* seeing, however, are many more reports/pictures of such violence because anyone from anywhere in the country can post them on the web or sell footage to the papers.

It gives the impression that there has been a huge increase when actually the increase has been out own individual knowledge of incidents occuring.

[ummmm]

Agreed Jack. It's just all reported and filmed.

If I had an iphone back in the day I could be selling footage to all the media.

[dannyk13]

JTH . //has been out own individual knowledge of incidents occuring.//
Can you explain that please.

[jackthehat]

Apart from the typo which should have been 'our'....
I mean that any violent incidents occuring in, say, Birmingham would have been completely unknown to me. It didn't mean that they didn't happen, I just didn't know about them. Now, I can know about every crime in every city/town across the country......and lead me into extrapolting from that the huge increase in my knowledge is due to a huge increase in the numbers of crimes. It isn't.

[ummmm]

Even crimes in our hometown didn't always make the news.

[dannyk13]

JTH, it is vastly different kind of violence.

[jackthehat]

You can't say that for certain unless you are aware of every other crime committed across (recent) history. You, personally, may not have witnessed it but that doesn't mean it wasn't happening.