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Originally Posted by Danny Himself
Perhaps thats true for where you live, but not here.
Where I live now would be classed as middle-class. Houses are between 200-300K a pop- and is it worth the money? Not one fucking bit. Gangs of about 50+ teens used to just 'hang' right outside my mothers house, wrecking cars, tagging walls, robbing from the Spar and on one occasion they broke into to one of the houses (in clear sight). Once, when a neighbor confronted the gang.. well this happened;
Neighbor: Go on, get out of here.
Kid: Oh, I'll get out of here. When I'm done having a piss.
He was pissing on her house. There's just one example, but really, I see and hear it all. A guy got murdered down the street in his own house, and the next day it was the talk of school, and everyone knew who it was but nobody had told the police. The guy was arrested later on. He was 17. He went to preschool with my sister and now he's a murderer. I don't know how many school folks I've seen drop out and become drug addicts. Even my sister got herself involved in that scene- and what did it get her? You really don't want to know.
This new generation, at least in Liverpool (and therefore I could probably assume its the same in London, Manchester, Glasgow, etc) is almost entirely promiscuous, drug-addled, needlessly violent scum.
I don't really want to write off a whole generation, but I'll be forced to someday. So, no, it is not pure bullshit, not at all.
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Like I said I can only speak for Wales, but you generally find crime decreases in one area and goes up in another. Older people often say "when i was younger there wasnt half the amount of crime". Well thats because when you were younger this suburb of cardiff was merely a village with a maximum of 100 people. So its important that there is context when debating crime increases and decreases. Im not wholly convinced that tougher punishment and police presence is the answer. Sure there are areas that need sorting out. But there is a tendancy among the working and middle classes to blow everything out of proportion and I think it hurts the places that really do have a problem. I mean I lived in a council estate (i now live in beautiful Barrett home suburbia) and it seemed to me to be grossly exaggerated.
Perhaps its just I hate moral panics, declorations of the country turning into the wild west. There is no reasoned debate on this subject that is the problem, theres just a load of old people ranting and raving.
Anyway back to the subject. Its should look like things are being done when it comes to weed but there should be a consenus not to do anything. In that way the south wales police have got their policy just right. The police's resourses are better spent in other areas.