De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

@Bill
I appreciate where your comment is coming from, I really do. Especially assuming as I am that the people getting mugged are no doubt pretty loaded and evidently careless about where they go, when ... it's often pretty easy to see trouble coming in this sort of situation, to those who are just a little streetwise. De Beauvoir, like many London quite-posh bits, is pretty near some rather not-posh bits. However, people who commit crimes* can* be nice when it suits them, but that doesn't excuse their actions - which in this case seem to be selfish, violent (or at least using the threat of violence), and greedy. Lovely little scrotes eh?

I don't disagree that the people committing robbery are horrible, and that the police should be out there trying to catch them.

I do disagree with the tenor of Mike's remarks, which appeared to suggest that he wanted any kid who looks as if they live on an estate to be summarily punished simply for hanging around on the street.

Remember when Matthew Parris suggested that it might be a laugh to string piano wire across roads to catch cyclists, whom Parris blamed for littering country lanes?