RE: UK Cop visits Detroit
January 18, 2016 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2016 at 5:04 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
I'm in my late 20s and I saw my first ever gun about 2 years ago outside a high court where they were transporting what I presumed was a dangerous criminal.
The article speaks the truth when it says there is no appetite here for arming police, but that obviously the U.S., and poor inner cities are a different kettle of fish.
A lot of british police are armed with tazers now, though every use of a tazer is usually investigated by an indepdent police body that monitors the use of firearms called the indepdent police complaints commission. Not every murder here makes national news, that's ridiculous.
Knife crime is a problem in certain but not many areas. Most of it, like in Detroit, is contained within poor inner city areas amongst poor communities. I've lived in my current post code for 6 years and the one single reported crime committed within a mile radius of me (according to the police website) was an 'affray' (punch up).
The UK is not a crime free paradise, which I think the article sort of want to implies, but I'd agree that whilst we of course have poverty and the social issues caused as a result, we don't have anything like Detroit.
Fascinating read, though.
The article speaks the truth when it says there is no appetite here for arming police, but that obviously the U.S., and poor inner cities are a different kettle of fish.
A lot of british police are armed with tazers now, though every use of a tazer is usually investigated by an indepdent police body that monitors the use of firearms called the indepdent police complaints commission. Not every murder here makes national news, that's ridiculous.
Knife crime is a problem in certain but not many areas. Most of it, like in Detroit, is contained within poor inner city areas amongst poor communities. I've lived in my current post code for 6 years and the one single reported crime committed within a mile radius of me (according to the police website) was an 'affray' (punch up).
The UK is not a crime free paradise, which I think the article sort of want to implies, but I'd agree that whilst we of course have poverty and the social issues caused as a result, we don't have anything like Detroit.
Fascinating read, though.
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