Inside the force...channel 5

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Based in Boro cop shop (don't know if that's just for just this week or the series). The bloke with all the weapons etc😱😱😱
 
Every programme like this always makes the town/City where it's based look really bad. 99% of the time you are dealing with the worst people in the worst areas so never going to paint a lovely picture.
Same with The Force Manchester - if I'd have watched that I'd have never moved down here. But there are lots of good places and good people everywhere.
 
h_m_boro said:
Every programme like this always makes the town/City where it's based look really bad. 99% of the time you are dealing with the worst people in the worst areas so never going to paint a lovely picture.
Same with The Force Manchester - if I'd have watched that I'd have never moved down here. But there are lots of good places and good people everywhere.
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That's true, but for balance Cleveland has some of the most deprived wards in the country, amongst the highest crime rates in the country, including real issues with violence and appalling levels of child poverty.

Of course this isn't the case across all areas, but collectively it undoubtedly paints a very grim picture.

The area has been neglected for a long time now, underfunded, lack of opportunity, lack of work and the results are painfully predictable.
 
It's the same everywhere sadly. For every Didsbury in MCR there is a Collyhurst or Moss Side.....or a local estate that's pretty much no go. And the crime in these areas are probably worse than Teesside.

Repeat in all major towns/cities up and down the country. Teesside definitely isn't unique, great areas of the country have been purposely and selectively left to rot.
 
that area with the hostel in looked absolutely brutal.

and the area where they arrested the lad near eston could have been about 6 different estates in boro
 
h_m_boro said:
Every programme like this always makes the town/City where it's based look really bad. 99% of the time you are dealing with the worst people in the worst areas so never going to paint a lovely picture.
Same with The Force Manchester - if I'd have watched that I'd have never moved down here. But there are lots of good places and good people everywhere.
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Highest levels of violent crime per capita in the UK.

Highest levels of gun crime in the country.

In the top 5 places for opiate drug deaths.

Highest rates of suicide in the country.

We can debate the causes of this which are complex and many. They are almost certainly exacerbated by the lack of funding and deprivation seen in the area, but we need to stop normalising and pretending that Teesside is the same as other places.

The people; my family and yours, deserve much much better than this. It's a proud place, let down so badly for so many years.

Depressingly the area's leaders (MPs and Mayor's) represent the party that is ideologically against all of the levers and mechanisms that make a place like Teesside better.

We've got to stop pretending that what is going on is OK. I'm sure it's well meaning but it's counter productive.
 
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another thing that not a lot of people are aware of is the fertility rates in these areas are dropping like a stone. whereas years ago primary schools in these areas would be 2-3 form entry (60-90) kids per year they are now struggling to have 1 form (30 kids) entry. a sign of the times when you see programmes like this with the drug and alcohol use you can see why, also i assume more people moving out of these areas that can. not sure what long term impact this will have
 
h_m_boro said:
It's the same everywhere sadly. For every Didsbury in MCR there is a Collyhurst or Moss Side.....or a local estate that's pretty much no go. And the crime in these areas are probably worse than Teesside.

Repeat in all major towns/cities up and down the country. Teesside definitely isn't unique, great areas of the country have been purposely and selectively left to rot.
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Not unique, but about as bad as it gets by all the metrics that are applied to measure deprivation, poverty (inc child poverty), homelessness, violence (inc that caused by organised crime), drug use, unemployment - I could go on, the list is a long sorry one.
 
Apologies, I'm not trying to point score on which is the worse area.

Working class areas throughout the country have been deprived funding, ground down and left to rot - and not by accident. It's generally been a policy to do this to Labour areas, whereas the red wall ones have had money chucked at them, pork barrel tastic.

The unmerciful attack on the working classes under the austerity policy will not go down in history kindly to the Tories......not that they will care, they will see it as a success story.
 
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