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Re: Poppy seller, 71, left fighting for her life after brutal mugging
As l have said loads of time on this forum, l work with the vulnerable, Mostly the elderly, but quite often the young.
Society, look upon the elderly as an easy target, young lads that walk the streets are victims of crimes. When you get a gang of lads who think, 'ah l am one of the lads, go and do someone' and find it fun.
My main point is that we need more policing on our streets, NOT less. I spoke with a 16 year old disabled lad, recently and he had his mobile phone stolen, by a group of lads.
He was scared to tell his parents of this. Eventually after a bit of persuasion. He pointed the guys out. These were arrested - 17 and 18 years old.
They got community service.
The elderly WILL NOT open the doors after a certain time in fear - this is why we need local neighbourhood policing, that take care of THERE community. And yet we are told that this is being reduced even further.
What is this world coming to when you cannot walk the streets - without being robbed
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