Is it just me or does anyone else feel that Potters Bar seems to be suffering from a lot more crime than usual recently?
I am sure I hear more police sirens than usual, I've had neighbours burgled in the middle of the day etc.
I don't remember things like this happening before.
Do you think it was always there but now there's better communication we hear about it more? I often wonder whether that's the reason. It's hard to know the truth, statistics are twisted around so many ways to prove any point you want.
I often see gangs of hoodies locally and wonder whether they are just intimidating but harmless or a genuine threat to safety. I don't think the law provides any threat to these kind of people any more as they're reluctant to lock anyone up these days.
I don't personally think it's any worse than it was 10 years ago when I moved here, it's still a small community with that community feel, and it still has the rubbish the government seem unwilling to deal with in it, then as it has now.
slimgym Wrote:Do you think it was always there but now there's better communication we hear about it more? I often wonder whether that's the reason. It's hard to know the truth, statistics are twisted around so many ways to prove any point you want.
Good point, I mean 10 years ago we didn't have things like the internet and this forum for example, and other news sources, so were probably less exposed to all the 'bad news'.
I also think that the hoodies that hang around places might look menacing but they're locals, always going to be in the same spot and would be easy to find if a crime occured.
They may look out of place and seem a nuisance but I think they're pretty harmless.
slimgym Wrote:I also think that the hoodies that hang around places might look menacing but they're locals, always going to be in the same spot and would be easy to find if a crime occured.
They may look out of place and seem a nuisance but I think they're pretty harmless.
What worried me is when alcohol is involved - although most of Potters Bar is supposed to be a 'designated area' area now.
There are very few visible police - but then that works both ways - if this area is low crime then the units will be deployed elsewhere. Personally apart from rural Herts which would be lovely, I think here is about the best. I have a friend who lives in Hatfield and whilst his bit of it (Garden Village) is fine, the rest of it is pretty cruddy and it's too large. We are bordered by green belt and unlikely to get any bigger, which is good
I was walking through the park on Saturday morning with my young son, when entering the bigger playground we found it covered by empty or half empty larger cans, which we cleared up and empty the larger out, what would of happened I do not know if a small child had managed to get to the can before the parent realised and drank some of the strong larger which was left. It seems such a shame when we have a lovely park that it is being blighted by a few mindless teenagers, and I have a teenager, who I can say, hand on heart, would never do anything as mindless as this.
I agree you did the right thing and that once the first litter has appeared it's a downward spiral. Sadly there will always be idiots and thoughtless people wherever you are in the world
I told some **** to put his rubbish in a bin on the train when he dropped it to the floor as though the world was his bin. He was around 50 and wearing a suit too, looked dead embaressed as everyone looked around so it's not just the young people who have no respect or thought for others.
(Zero) Edit: Edited one word, changing it from partially obscured to fully obscured (ie. ****).