Female off-duty police officer beaten by mob at London Tube station after challenging fare dodgers

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officer-attacked-mob-wood-green-station-fare-dodgers-b1236524.html

by ThatchersDirtyTaint

16 comments

  1. When small crimes become acceptable it leads to bigger crimes. They think they can do whatever they want, more often than not are proven right

  4. Part of the problem with small offences is that they are often indicative of wider issues.

    Fare dodging absolutely should be challenged because it’s violent thugs like this that are damaging our society.

    All those classic deflections like “no murders to solve then” well it seems like exactly the type of people that are killing each other are those committing other crimes too so why wait for a murder when you can deal with them for something before it gets to that stage

  5. They look so smug and proud of themselves for it. You can tell they’ve always got their way and gamed the system if ever challenged.

  8. Now why did this have to happen to her and not Robert Jenrick during his recent stunt?

  9. So many people don’t pay, they think it’s their god given right to get free transportation, whilst I pay £8 to get to work everyday, to cover their short fall.

    The uk needs to get tough and fast, I’m so sick of it,

  11. These websites are so shit. Police add us to get in touch if we recognise any of them, but you click on the website and all you get is adverts interspersed with little bits of article, and no pictures of them at all

  13. I was on the bus by Angel yesterday, and two girls – I think drunk, but may (genuinely) have just been dumb and loud – got on, one of them their card didn’t work when she was tapping on. She clearly expected the driver to just waiver her through, but he instead he waited for her to find an alternative card to pay. Finally she found one, tapped in, and immediately started verbally abusing the driver in really sexual terms saying ‘It’s not my fault you’re not getting laid at the moment mate’. ‘No masturbation, that’s your problem’.

    He stonewalled her (wisely) waited for her to sit down, and then she and her mate were just drunk and loud at the back for the rest of the trip.

    Anyway … why do I bring this up … Because there are dumb as fuck people with zero civic sense all over London. They don’t give a fuck about anybody else or frankly even themselves. The concept of ‘dignity’ is totally foreign to them. And I have no idea what the solution to this type of person is, because I genuinely think they are so dumb that they’re not capable of being any different.

  15. Genuine question, are officers expected to do stuff like this off duty? If someones safety or life was in danger, I could understand why police officers would have a duty to act while on duty or not, but challenging a group like this with no gear or backup sounds like a risk that might not outweigh the few pounds it would save the train companies

    Now to be clear I am not saying they didn’t deserve to get called out, or that we shouldn’t live in a society where people committing petty crime can’t be called out by people without batons, tasers and not in uniform, but idk it makes me think of how shop employees aren’t supposed to fully confront shoplifters because the risk of them just getting attacked in retaliation is too high.

    And before someone says “so just let them get away with it??” the solution to the rise in things like shoplifting and fare dodging can’t just be to hope that an off duty cop is nearby and doesn’t get their arse kicked when they try to intervene. I’d say that the difference off duty cops can make in intervening when they see these sorts of petty crimes probably won’t make much of a difference to the wide scale of the problem, so I’d rather the cops not get beaten off duty and be given more support to deal with things on duty. But idk as I say I don’t know if police are expected to intervene in any and all crime they see when off duty regardless of physical risk

  16. Why no CCTV images of the four teenage girls involved?

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