Panorama - Anti Social Behaviour: Afraid in my own home

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I've just watched the above programme on BBC Iplayer (first shown last night) which covers anti-social behaviour in Hemlington and it doesn't paint the area in a very good light. It showed The Gables getting its windows smashed on several occasions and another resident having his windows smashed whilst he was in the house. I attend a woodturning group in Hemlington and have witnessed some of this behaviour first hand.

Tonight in the Gazette, there is a picture of a pensioner's home with green netting in front of his windows to prevent stones from hitting them. No one deserves to be afraid in their own home and this needs tackling.

Obviously, Hemlington is not the only area to suffer this from kind of behaviour and I am sure each and every one of us has experienced it in some form but why should we have to put up with this.

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I watched it last night.
Nothing worse than being frightened in your home. You've got nowhere to go and the yobs can come at any time.
Awful.
 
In the EG a certain family is named in the comments on more than one occasion. Hemlington is a big area and a minority are making it a living hell for decent families in that part of the estate.
 
the_holgate_roof said:
I thought Andy Preston made a big thing about anti social behaviour and turfing the scum out of their houses?
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Believe it when I see it. Nowt mentioned about the three little cherubs that attacked the OAPs. If no action why bother spouting shoite about what I will do rather than I'm doing nothing about it. All speak and now action.
 
Where are the police?

The other problem is when these little thugs are caught and charged they receive a slap on the wrist and are back doing it the same day. There needs to a zero tolerance attitude from the police, council and courts to this type of behaviour. Don't give me any rubbish about a lack of youth clubs or whatever, the only reason these scumbags would visit a youth club would be to smash it up.
 
They will always be above the law until the law changes. Far too many do gooder's around. We had a lad in school who was always in trouble so they sent him away to a home in Bristol, when and why did it change.
 
thewanderer said:
Where are the police?

The other problem is when these little thugs are caught and charged they receive a slap on the wrist and are back doing it the same day. There needs to a zero tolerance attitude from the police, council and courts to this type of behaviour. Don't give me any rubbish about a lack of youth clubs or whatever, the only reason these scumbags would visit a youth club would be to smash it up.
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We voted to cut the numbers of police for the last decade. There aren't many on duty these days.

And thank God we did, the country needs all those billionaires we've created to keep the money laundering institutions busy.
 
People need to realise what an under-funded police force looks like. Its always the police who get the blame but they have to prioritise what they do.
Low numbers of police on the beat and the complete lack of a visible police presence allows crime and anti-social behaviour to thrive. Allied with this the parents lack of care, control and discipline. I'm sure their teachers also get it in the neck everyday at their under-funded school too.

All consequences of deliberate government policy but people pay more attention to facebook and reality TV.
 
I was brought up in hemlington as a kid albeit in the private estate and I thought it was a great place to grow up with the lake and loads of greenery to play football etc.

my parents still live jn the same family home and as much as I still love visiting them I wish for the hell of me I could get them to sell up and move.

theres very little if any bother where they live but the whole place it tarred with the same brush when you mention it and I feel a little cringe inside me when people ask where I was brought up. I hate that I think like that as I had a great childhood.
 
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