Good grief, that it’s come to this instead of policing the street properly?
Or spend the time and money on a couple of police officers whose brief is just to beat up and down Oxford St to deter this sort of behaviour.
Every 15 minutes is a pretty telling stat
That strip should be covered in 9 inch metal spikes to deter those bastards, to be of any use…
I’m staggered, while I absolutely think that being aware of your surroundings is a good idea this just looks like…. giving up?
How can pretty crooks be so untouchable?
I thought London has a shit ton of cameras? I guess it’s all a myth and impossible to track any of these people if it happens so regularly you need to paint some lines, yet pot holes go hard
I think we should take inspiration from the Israeli pager strategy… I think I could end e-bike phone snatching in about a week given the right resources…
How about, and hear me out… it’s a bit controversial but, try policing the streets for a change?
This is so fucking embarrassing
Purple paint replaces police, who are too busy arresting pensioners and musicians for opposing genocide.
# It’s not coming, it’s already here.
Stricter punishment for those who are caught would work better.
Or you can over penalize the crime. Making it an unreasonable jail term for cell phone theft. The consequences have to outweigh the reward.
Nick 10 of them and give them all 10 years in prison each.
Instead of fixing the actual problems, we keep putting bandaids.
I don’t find it sad, I find it infuriating.
All of this is a choice made by our ‘leaders’.
I’ve had mine snatched from my FRONT JEAN POCKET by a guy on his e bike, this is not going to work
Police ❌
Purple sticker ✅
I live abroad now and I constantly get questions about if London is “really that bad?”. We’re getting a global reputation for rampant petty crime and incompetent policing. It’s honestly become a national embarrassment.
Urging people to step away from the kerb and then they showed 3 videos of bikes mounting the kerb to steal the phones.
What a “solution”.
Another great result of endless austerity measures leaving no budget for the country to provide the very basic services, such as proper policing, to its population.
It’s sad to see indeed. Breakdown of law and order. Failure of the state.
I might start renting baseball bats at either end of Oxford Street. Let them run the gauntlet
Not gonna do a thing. Everyone’s known London has been like this for years at this point and getting worse, I was on Oxford St the other day and out of the 20+ odd people directly in front of me, 3x of them didn’t actively have a phone out staring at it while walking. Hundreds of shops down that street and nobody thinks to go in a shop doorway to reply a message that’s that urgent or check their GPS or whatever they need to do.
If they’re so busy staring at their phone to have no situational awareness to begin with, how exactly are they going to take notice of signs on the floor?
Kick the fuckers over if you get a chance
Won’t work. Mine got snatched out of my hand just this weekend, I was away from the curb by the wall, they just come up the pavement anyway. SMH.
UK policing and government at its finest, we can’t be bothered to stop the criminals so you guys just make it harder for the criminal to commit the crime and we should be alright. They’ll tell shops to just show photos of what they sell or tell people to wear stab proof vests
So how would the numbers changed if robbers were convicted? Things might get better…smh..
fuck that. What you want is a phone shaped piece of wood or metal with a load of spring loaded spikes that will deploy when you press a button. You could film it and have a very popular channel. Call it scrote baiting.
What about small explosive devices disguised as brand new phones.
So presumably they’ll just start riding further into the pavement then?
I wish there was some sort of service, a force perhaps, which could sort this out.
Need the Mossad pager and walkie talkie sales team to do a “special promotion” on iPhones.
Why don’t they arrest the owners of shops that buy these for parts also. My friend had her phone stolen she did find it through find my iPhone and it was found to be in one of those doggy phone shops, she told police and they couldn’t care less. They wonder why it’s out of control, may because no one in the chain gets punished at all.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas
How about the police do the fucking job we pay them for instead of spending their time arresting pensioners protesting a genocide and protecting right wing thugs trying to burn down hotels.
Can’t they just get some of those exploding phones the Israelis had?
The funding for this would be better spent on a decoy phone scheme; why the police can’t just deploy plain clothes officers to run about hotspots with fake dummy phones that can precisely track is beyond me
Lol this is just pathetic.
How about you get a police force that isn’t a joke
It’s better to draw a line on a pavement rather than eliminate the problem. Wtf.
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Good grief, that it’s come to this instead of policing the street properly?
Or spend the time and money on a couple of police officers whose brief is just to beat up and down Oxford St to deter this sort of behaviour.
Every 15 minutes is a pretty telling stat
That strip should be covered in 9 inch metal spikes to deter those bastards, to be of any use…
I’m staggered, while I absolutely think that being aware of your surroundings is a good idea this just looks like…. giving up?
How can pretty crooks be so untouchable?
I thought London has a shit ton of cameras? I guess it’s all a myth and impossible to track any of these people if it happens so regularly you need to paint some lines, yet pot holes go hard
I think we should take inspiration from the Israeli pager strategy… I think I could end e-bike phone snatching in about a week given the right resources…
How about, and hear me out… it’s a bit controversial but, try policing the streets for a change?
This is so fucking embarrassing
Purple paint replaces police, who are too busy arresting pensioners and musicians for opposing genocide.
# It’s not coming, it’s already here.
Stricter punishment for those who are caught would work better.
Or you can over penalize the crime. Making it an unreasonable jail term for cell phone theft. The consequences have to outweigh the reward.
Nick 10 of them and give them all 10 years in prison each.
Instead of fixing the actual problems, we keep putting bandaids.
I don’t find it sad, I find it infuriating.
All of this is a choice made by our ‘leaders’.
I’ve had mine snatched from my FRONT JEAN POCKET by a guy on his e bike, this is not going to work
Police ❌
Purple sticker ✅
I live abroad now and I constantly get questions about if London is “really that bad?”. We’re getting a global reputation for rampant petty crime and incompetent policing. It’s honestly become a national embarrassment.
Urging people to step away from the kerb and then they showed 3 videos of bikes mounting the kerb to steal the phones.
What a “solution”.
Another great result of endless austerity measures leaving no budget for the country to provide the very basic services, such as proper policing, to its population.
It’s sad to see indeed. Breakdown of law and order. Failure of the state.
I might start renting baseball bats at either end of Oxford Street. Let them run the gauntlet
Not gonna do a thing. Everyone’s known London has been like this for years at this point and getting worse, I was on Oxford St the other day and out of the 20+ odd people directly in front of me, 3x of them didn’t actively have a phone out staring at it while walking. Hundreds of shops down that street and nobody thinks to go in a shop doorway to reply a message that’s that urgent or check their GPS or whatever they need to do.
If they’re so busy staring at their phone to have no situational awareness to begin with, how exactly are they going to take notice of signs on the floor?
Kick the fuckers over if you get a chance
Won’t work. Mine got snatched out of my hand just this weekend, I was away from the curb by the wall, they just come up the pavement anyway. SMH.
UK policing and government at its finest, we can’t be bothered to stop the criminals so you guys just make it harder for the criminal to commit the crime and we should be alright. They’ll tell shops to just show photos of what they sell or tell people to wear stab proof vests
So how would the numbers changed if robbers were convicted? Things might get better…smh..
fuck that. What you want is a phone shaped piece of wood or metal with a load of spring loaded spikes that will deploy when you press a button. You could film it and have a very popular channel. Call it scrote baiting.
What about small explosive devices disguised as brand new phones.
So presumably they’ll just start riding further into the pavement then?
I wish there was some sort of service, a force perhaps, which could sort this out.
Need the Mossad pager and walkie talkie sales team to do a “special promotion” on iPhones.
Why don’t they arrest the owners of shops that buy these for parts also. My friend had her phone stolen she did find it through find my iPhone and it was found to be in one of those doggy phone shops, she told police and they couldn’t care less. They wonder why it’s out of control, may because no one in the chain gets punished at all.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas
How about the police do the fucking job we pay them for instead of spending their time arresting pensioners protesting a genocide and protecting right wing thugs trying to burn down hotels.
Can’t they just get some of those exploding phones the Israelis had?
The funding for this would be better spent on a decoy phone scheme; why the police can’t just deploy plain clothes officers to run about hotspots with fake dummy phones that can precisely track is beyond me
Lol this is just pathetic.
How about you get a police force that isn’t a joke
It’s better to draw a line on a pavement rather than eliminate the problem. Wtf.
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