paulfromcamden
Baffled
The police went to the trouble of examining FM's shopping for the past year to create an excuse for them to knock on his door in the hope he hadn't tidied up his meth lab that morning?
Had a visit from the Police.
- Thread starter Fatmarley
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Gingerbeard
Ayup Me Duck
There was an explosion in my lavatory the other day, no one came around to investigate!
You should have kept them there hours, showing them all the tools, different chucks and giving them the low down on the drill bit to tap size conversion chart. You'd have made another black list then, one where never bother you again.
Jubal
pfm Member
It’s a good attitude. Big brother aspect isn’t entirely to my liking. It’s some kind of amateur baddie who would pay by card anyway!
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
You say that like local Constable Dullwit went through some bank statements by hand. It was a data mined output, purely algorithmic. And yes, the algorithm was created with exactly that purpose.
Salamander
pfm Member
I wouldn't be happy with them coming round at 9pm.
Rug Doc
pfm Member
Pretty much anybody that wants information about you has it already and you willingly hand it over without even knowing it. Its a sad to admit scenario in the world, but our data is worth so much it’s the most valuable commodity on the planet now.
I was as burgled to the tune of a lot of money and I didn’t see a policeman once. No one cared at all. To actually hear that there are officers on foot is good.
I was as burgled to the tune of a lot of money and I didn’t see a policeman once. No one cared at all. To actually hear that there are officers on foot is good.
davidsrsb
pfm Member
It's amazing how many do. Maybe because they are the ones who get caught.
awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
I love it when conspiracy theorists criticise others for their politics.
kensalriser
pfm Member
I don't think this is anything to to with terrorism. Much more likely that list of gear fits the profile of someone who might be engaged in modifying or fabricating firearms, such people are in high demand in the criminal world.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Reminds me of this:
'Most of my family are police marksmen, apart from my errant granddad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family'
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Probably because the resulting turdulance was minimal.There was an explosion in my lavatory the other day, no one came around to investigate!
Not wishing to divert from Fatmarley's experience, but I also had a nocturnal visit from the police in my Ramsgate house (cusp of 80s and 90s?). It seems I was reported by a local lady for a supposed traffic violation on the Heads of the Valleys road not far from Neath, west Wales. I couldn't believe it, but I was on that road, but on different day to the one submitted.
Ended up in a Welsh court, would you believe, where I was acquitted by a very sceptical judge/jury. All that hassle !!! I remembered the incident, where an old dear (or couple) drove out of a side road, across the other carriageway and into my path and I had to swerve round her at speed, possibly crossing road lines. It was simply a minor incident fast forgotten at the time but how or why she's insisted on the wrong day is beyond me. I also have no idea why the local police decided it merited a witch-hunt.
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
You can’t “catch” a criminal before they commit a crime. What you can do, and under the Tories has been significantly expanded, is create new crimes for people who are looking at things in a funny way, or are brown, or want to show people things you want to hide, or are saying things that Labour would like. And then you claim that catching those “criminals” prevented the crime that didn’t happen.
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
You seriously think it’s good that there are officers on foot sniffing around trying to nick easy targets when you’ve personally experienced their absolute indifference to real crimes ? Wow. Just wow.
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
And for all of you who think I’m a conspiracy theorist, think back to how gleeful the plods were when they got Covid powers and could hand out penalties willy-nilly to the middle classes with no risk of being stabbed.
Rug Doc
pfm Member
True, and I can see where you’re coming from. But a list of ingredients for a bomb threat or gun making enterprise poses more of a threat to human life than a burglary no?
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
Sure. But again - they had no interest in a threat to human life. They are fed this information as an excuse to go onto properties and if they can spot (or smell) anything (usually drugs) that might allow a non-warrant search and an easy conviction to get their numbers up.
mattjevans
Well-Known Member
And before anyone makes silly suggestions, I don’t do any drugs whatsoever and barely have a glass of wine a week these days. This is about police tactics not my personal experiences.