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Originally Posted by Graham
The assumption here seems to be that someone who is wearing a hoodie/ baseball cap is automatically considered to be a criminal. I don't deny that shopkeepers have the right to protect their stock, but they also have the right to deny entry to their shop to anyone they want, just as Banks etc can put up signs saying "no crash helmets".
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It doesn't take a genius to work out that they are wearing these hoods to disguise/hide their facial features so that they cannot be detected by the cameras as I am sure you will agree. The Bluewater security will have noticed by incredible coincidence that the crime is being comitted by people they find hard to see their faces. Maybe they are being hoodist but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few sometimes....the many being the general public and the shopkeepers. The few being those who refuse to put their hood down as opposed to those who happen to be wearing a hooded jacket.
Of course not everyone who wears a hood will be a criminal but surely it is not too harsh to ask everyone to put their hood down whilst in the centre? It's hardly artic conditions in there....
You didnt answer my question.....
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Originally Posted by Salu
How would *you* help prevent crime in shopping centres done by youths using hoods and caps as facial disguises?
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...if you are so protective of their *rights*