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It seems unlikely that anyone who wants the police to act appropriately doesn't want the victims protected. But it is important that the police don't go all gung-ho; if knocking the moped riders off presents the least overall harm then fine.
Asking for checks and balances is pretty much the opposite of asking for lawless anarchy, if you think about it...
Scotland Yard solved 2.6 per cent of moped crimes, or 643 of the 24,294 reported in the 12 months to April 2018, compared with 3.1 per cent the previous year. The Met believes that not all scooter crime is reported.
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Given that moped crime includes not just theft, but also acid attacks and other pretty extreme violence, and given that the little sods are actively trying to play plod at their own game by removing helmets etc. to force an end to a pursuit, I honestly don't see the problem with allowing a controlled nudge (not a hard core 60mph speed differential ram) of the bike to unsettle them and potentially tip them off.
Yes, it could lead to injury. So could running away and scaling walls, fences, jumping blind over hedges etc. There is a certain tipping point where the choices you've made reduce the forces of Laura Norder's duty of care to you. Not eradicates. Not reverses. But reduces.
And yes, it's entirely responsible to investigate each incident to make sure it's done within acceptable parameters.
All of the above written as a card-carrying woolly liberal leftie hippy pearl-clutching effectively ex-biker with absolutely no particular love for plod or the strong arm of the State. The game has to have rules. Take the piss too much, and the rules will change to accommodate that.
I chose to work hard to earn money to buy things that I want. Why should someone else choose to steal those things from me and face no consequences?
The answer isn't that there are consequences, because there really aren't. There are consequences if you catch them, but how are you meant to do that if they're on a moped and you're not allowed to touch them?
What are the police supposed to do? Let them get away and then perform some kind of mystical scan that will tell them who the criminal was and where they went?
There's fuck all they can do, because the criminal is long gone. Do you know in what circumstances they wouldn't be long gone? If they were knocked off their vehicle and arrested beforehand.
3 times now I've called the police, 3 times they've said there's nothing we can do, so it just keeps happening.
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Do nothing - you have uncontrolled idiots speeding along the highways and pavements of this country endangering the lives of other drivers and pedestrians. Oh, and let's not forget the law-abiding victim they've just robbed.
Do something - you may knock someone off their moped who sustains an injury. Because it's a controlled collision it's likely to be minor although occasionally it might be more serious.
As I said earlier, because this is 'controversial' you will probably hear about every story where the injury to the rider is more than minor. What you won't hear is where a moped flattens some poor chap going about his everyday work.
Simple question really, If your own son/daughter was killed or maimed by one of these idiots I bet you'd have wished the practice of controlled collision would've continued. Instead - sigh - I suspect it'll be stopped.
Exactly this. Let's get away from the silly polarising. The police, like private citizens, should be allowed to use reasonable force to stop criminals. The police, like private citizens, should not be beyond sensible investigation into whether the force they use is indeed reasonable.
It's ridiculous that there are people who seem to read this as "woolly liberals want the police stop doing anything to prevent crime and just hand out bags of guns and cash to criminals". No-one has suggested that.
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