Intriguing AFour.
Of course, Newcastle is right, these days crimes are down to street level. How much of that is truly drug related is up for debate, but we have been in a war on drugs for a number of decades now. Of course, if you make something illegal such as taking drugs, then you create the crimes.
Personally if drugs were legal, then that's how you put the dealers out if business and the users are less likely to die from contaminated products. . Sell drugs at a drug store and get proper consistent quality and government get their taxes !
There used to be opium dens in London, and cocaine was sold as a pick me up and local anaesthetic in chemists until 1911, when the UK banned it.
I know a few drug dealers, and most of them are too spaced out to be involved in any crime.
London it seems has more than its fair share of violent crime, and though we know the dynamic of those who commit said crimes, we are not allowed to say that anymore and point out the obvious.
The article the good doctor posted and that I quoted from, was of course looking back at those times, when robbing banks and securicorp vans that carried money was rife.
Times have changed. People are better off these days, poverty is relative. Infact what may be considered poor these days would have the middle classes of the sixties spitting thier earl grey tea out if their China mugs if you were to show them how the poor live today in the UK
Anyhow, I must get outside and tidy up my garden, as this storm has blown over one of the wife's plant pots...
All the schools were closed as well today.
FFS ! What a generation of pussies we have today. I remember walking up silver street to school with my wellies and balaclava on through 2 foot of snow !
If the heating was off, well, you just kept your coat on and got in with it.
