Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 November 2009
10:4433977#1
Report just in from Sky News. Police find a womens body in Canterbury following a shooting incident at a supermarket in the city last night.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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27 November 2009
15:4233985#2
It was on BBC news this morning too. Some clown was waving a gun about in Morrisions so the Police shot him. Serves him right!
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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27 November 2009
18:3333999#3
This is the second gun crime report in the vicinity in recent weeks. However in all truth Dover seems to have escaped the gun and violent crime taking place elsewhere. Although for people locally to produce weapons and use them for the smallest argument is a worrying trend.
Just the other day at the Chamber event I was talking to a fellow forumite who was at some of these Neighbourhood Forum events where the police reassured us that crime was falling...and of course always have back up figures to prove it. But the general feeling is that these crime figures are going down mostly through how they themselves either respond of dont respond to a situation. Our fellow forumite told me he knew first hand that people had reported low level crime initially only for no response to be made, and as a consequence didnt bother to report subsequent crime of the low level sort.
This of course would have the effect of showing that the crime rate is falling.
Heavy crime such as shootings are rare and lets hope the police can continue to keep such horrors off our local streets. The two gun wielders of recent times have been caught.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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27 November 2009
18:4634001#4
Mind you Paul saying that, If you look at Ed's posting on another thread you either get NOTHING or OVER THE TOP.
I just could'nt believe what Ed told us all.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 November 2009
18:4834002#5
we are lucky with the small amount of crime involving weapons, but it has been shown that figures are manipulated to fit the target.
we seem to forget a few years back crime figures were "adjusted" quite blatantly to make things look good.
where there might have been 3 or 4 laws broken in one incident, they were only counted as one for statistical purposes.
27 November 2009
23:3934012#6
This governments target obsession has led to this, and to the failing NHS services who struggle to fit human services into the tiny tick-boxes created by pen-pushers.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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28 November 2009
01:0634016#7
This bloke was walking around Morrisons with a ballbearing gun. Not what you need when you are picking up your fruit and veg. The police incapacitated him with a shot to the arm. It goes to underline how important the Thin Blue Line are in protecting the public and how lucky we are to have a force we can still be proud of, particularly in comparison to the corrupt thugs so many countries are saddled with. All the more important that the wrong 'uns are identified and dealt with, as in a small way illustrated by my sister's predicament.
28 November 2009
13:1634034#8
Absolutely agreed, Ed.