Anti-Crime Bins have been deployed in Lancashire, UK, as part of Operation Genga. The goal is to reduce street violence among youth.

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  5. Let me guess… they will have a bunch of cameras pointed at this thing to… “keep it safe”.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if they find copious amounts of canine corpulence in there…

  6. People will mock this but knife crime is out of control amongst youth, so measures need to be put in place. Reopening and revitalising youth clubs should be main Concern tho

  9. Tomorrow’s headline: “An alarming number of anti-crime bin thefts have been reported throughout Lancashire”

  10. Yes, those for real.

    As for reducing a crime… well, well, well: you can’t openly discuss reasons for increased rates of blade attacks, so it goes along the lines ”education, lack of opportunities and poverty” but without going into details why it does affect some communities more, and other less, and what cultural reasons are those differences related.

    Same ways of ignoring problems to avoid ”stigmatisation” like in Sweden not long ago.

  15. The belief that all criminals are like Jean Valjean at heart (only committing crimes out of serious necessity or extreme circumstances), and therefore you can talk to them like decent human beings, is going to tank the Western world.

  16. In contrary to the broad narrative that only more policing helps against crime, this is often not the case. More policing concludes in more arrests, which often is only a short time solution, since jail breeds better criminals. Also the disturbance of communities by taking out chunks of it often breeds resentment against law enforcement, further broadening the problem.

    Community driven project like these, which rely on trust, actually help alot more, since they teach communities to police themselves. It’s a process, bt it reaps greater rewards than slapping handcuffs on kids.Further measures that are effective: open spaces that are observable by the public, youth clubs that offer more than a pastorial programm, open public services such as libraries and sportsplaces, no-car zones.

    Humans are generally more eager to follow someone into prospects of security, than being forcibly shoved in a direction.

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    Edit:

    Sure, showing arrest numbers and pictures of siezures pleases the public and politicians, but career criminals *expect to be caught.*
    Boredom and the lack of perspective, along with the removal of free public spaces, will drive many kids to do what thier peers do. *This doesn’t make them criminal, but kids*.

    Before someone comes along to berate me about how “unreal” this sounds: I’ve lived through this stuff and can say with confidence that mobb deep was right. Ain’t no such thing as a halfway crook. These bins will do more to sort the groups than jail will.

  22. In the country with the most CCTV cameras per-person of the World using this is is the best way to end up in a police database even if you’re a stupid kid who got a knife because the other kids in your council estate had knifes too and then a few years later had grown up enough to figure out just how stupid that is.

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