Cops do nothing about my neighbour
12-May-2008
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I am in my twenties and have just recently bought a house in ‘quiet area’; at least that was how the estate agent described it when I was looking for a house.  The issue of crime and the police wasn’t even discussed.

I have been here for eleven months now, and have had police visits more often than I care to remember.  My neighbours make the guys from Shameless (channel four comedy/drama) look like royalty.  Only yesterday, the dole scrounging scumbag kindly put his foot through my living room window.  The only suggestion I have for this kind of behaviour is that he thought we might need some air-con or something.

A pair of hand cuffs

For these last eleven months they have mentally tortured us and made living here absolute hell.  However, my gripe isn’t with these people, it’s with the police who fail to act.  Every time we call them out, what do they do?  Absolutely nothing!  They hand out warnings and turn their backs on us.

Not only am I paying for the dole scrounging moron scumbag to live next door to me through my taxes, but I am also paying for a bunch of useless coppers that would rather wait for me to cave my neighbours’ head in than actually do something about him!

No wonder people flip out and kill their neighbours after months of abuse, and no wonder people take the law into their own hands.  What choice do they have when the police will do absolutely nothing?

And on the subject of the police, how about some respect?

I was in a petrol station in the evening and I heard the crackle of a police radio.  There was an officer looking at the magazines.  I noticed that he had a goatee beard and the "non-beard" part of his face had some stubble.

He caught my eye and said, “Alright mate?”

1. Surely a police officer shouldn't wear stubble?
2. Why was he browsing magazines when on duty?
3. I think that the more formal "hello sir" would have been more appropriate.

I have heard police officers complain about a general "lack of respect".  I say that you reap what you sow.


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" 1. Surely a police officer shouldn't wear stubble?
2. Why was he browsing magazines when on duty?
3. I think that the more formal "hello sir" would have been more appropriate "

No offense but you seem like a bit of a prat, it doesn't take much to understand why an already violent person would put their foot through your window without feeling too bad about it.
And also, how dumb could you be to move to an area without checking it out properly?
And perhaps if you looked at your neighbours as people, rather than scum, they wouldn't hate you so much.
*friend  29-Mar-2008 10:45

 
The solution - AK47, when you can be be absolutely, positively sure of killin' every Mo Fo in the room!
*Razzer  21-Nov-2007 12:11

 
tuffty,small comfort but your not alone.I live in the Durham area and we have the same type of brain dead hear.On one housing estate which is classed as a no go area there were 42 cars with tyres slashed in one night as well as damage to property and gardens.Elderly people would sit in the dark afraid to switch the tele on, they would go to the post office in groups to draw their pensions.One chap who had had enough decided to call a meeting in the local community centre to discuss the idea of setting up a neighbourhood watch scheme,this never got off the ground, another chap said that he with the help of one or two more would take on the brain dead and beat them at their own game,this got him a standing ovation,but when he asked for volunteers to assist him he got four hands in the air out of one hundred and seventy.Needless to say ,cars are still been damaged,people still sit in the dark and still go out in groups.
A pointless exercise.
*Handyman  20-Nov-2007 22:29

 
Not many people seem to know how many pensioners are murdered and these are the only ones I have heard about

74 pensioners murdered by thugs, many others seriously injured because the law and police have ASBO’s and a hundred other ways to let criminals off and other criminals let out of prison early.
England's most senior judge has called for shorter jail terms for murderers.

14 June 2006 - 53 people sentenced to life since 2000 in England and Wales have already been released on licence, ministers have disclosed. The release of the lifers, including rapists and murderers, was "absolutely disgraceful" Tory MP David Davies said.
Go to the web site below and write to your MP and say what you think the law should do before you are someone in your family is killed.
http://uk.geocities.com/pensioners_deaths
*Michael. Nottingham  20-Sep-2007 11:51

 
for the past 5 months whe have also been having problems with one of our neighbours, he has been verbaly abusing our children every time they pass his house, and also verbaly abusing myself and my husband. Everytime It happend we phoned the police but as usual they did nothing at all to help us. About 5 weeks ago we had to call the police again, because of this man, they said that they would have to do something now as it was getting silly, but yes you guessed it, they did nothing again. then last week this man started yelling at me over our back gate, It shook me up, I was in a state when my husband came home from picking two of our children up from school. I phoned the police straight away and they said someone would phone me back. My husband saw the state I was in and went mad and said something had to be done now, he went up to this mans house, I was worryed about what he may do so I dield 999.
Our friends from next door went after my husband to try and calm him down but the man who we are having problems with threw my friend ( a woman ) accross his kitchen, when I heard about that I just saw red, because years ago I was a victim of domestic abuse and was not happy that this had happend to my friend, I went up to this mans house and all hell broke loose, my husband had a row with this man and his wife then came out and started kicking my husband in the head, I threw myself at her and started punching her to get her off my husband.
The police did come out about 15 minutes after it was all over, they treated myself and my husband like criminals, my husband was arested along with this man and another man and the police are coming out again in a couple of days to arest me.
Its all wrong, at the end of the day if they had done there job months ago then all of this may have been avoided. Im sure all police do all day is sit on their backsides drinking coffee and tea and when they do go out the only people they pick on it the inocent.
*tuffty  20-Sep-2007 00:12

 
We have a very busy local shop, we call the police more than 5 times a week to deal with theft, and abuse we have on a regular basis, we know who they are, they all belong to one family, and the police know who they are. when ever theres a crime in the area they are involved. Back 6 months ago we were told they were going to be evicted from the area, as so nmany people have complained about them. but still nothing done, they walk into the shop pick up what they like and walk out when approched by membersof staff thats when they get nasty and give abuse. sometimes the police turn up sometimes they dont there answer to the problem was for us to get a security man. We are only a corner shop, how are we suppose to afford to pay a security man.. why cant they just arrest them and do the job we pay them to do and get rid of the low life walking our streets
*annon  22-Aug-2007 18:25

 
I have been having trouble with my neighbours from hell for 9 years, I have been visited by the police on hundreds of occasions; never cautioned or given warnings for anything; the police tell me my neighbours are unstable and have mental issues.

I have recently removed the front edge of my garden and again been visited by the police; they agree that we are doing nothing wrong, I have been attacked by my neighbour verbally and chased round my garden with a chain saw. Still the police have done nothing.

I have had letters and visits from our council, social services, RSPCA, education offices, all say they are nuisance calls, hand on heart I can say I have never done anything to my neighbours, but my family are constantly being videoed as are visitors. Surely they are wasting police time, why have they never been dealt with.
*Anonymous  21-Aug-2007 12:24

 
If you have recently bought the house, then look to see what the vendors put in answer to the question 'Any problems with neighbours'. This includes children's behaviour. You can sue them for your money back plus costs if they did not tell the truth.
*Quiet law abiding neighbour.  18-Jul-2007 13:01

 
invoke the highways act 1980 section 161. The council will not help, it is a law that can be enforced by the police.
Web police database states that it is an offense to play any gane on the highway including pavement which annoyes another road user. ( You are a road user if you are on the pavement.)
And games, particularly ball games are LIKELY to annoy people in the vicinity.
Consult the web, it is ;possible to go to magistrates court youself to enforce the law.
Playing games on the highway is subject to a fine--level one.I think that is currently £100.
This is a widespread problem and councils will inform you that the law cannot be enforced-RUBBISH.!!
Don't be bamboozled by: The right of children to play.. This does not give the right to play anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps their mothers would insist they have the right to play on the airpport runway, the army rifle range or the railway lines.
*kids I like, brats I hate.  18-Jul-2007 12:55

 
For all these problems you should contact Environmental Services at your Local Council or speak to your Antisocial Behaviour Team and the police also.

Don't think of handling the situation on your own but get help from other neighbours too, and together collect some evidence (sometimes the evidence is so “evident” that there is no need to collect it).

After you have handled this make a team of good neighbours and take measurers to prevent the situation from happening again. Also, investigate who is vetting the people that are occupying the flats and take action.

There is some work involved (not very much), but be determined that antisocial people should not have an easy life. They deserve to be abandoned on a deserted island surrounded by sharks and inhabited by the like of them, and do realise that they are usually cowards.

Good luck! (You will succeed)

SBC
*SuperBambinoCattivo  16-Jul-2007 00:27

 
like someone said create a diary of what happens and when then mail them to the police with a letter saying how anoyed you are. send the same letter with everything and leave all your details so they can get in touch with you if they dont keep sending letters untill they do somthing about it
*no one u know  15-Jul-2007 22:00

 
Create a diary of all events.Write registered, self addressed enveloped,letters to the chefs of police. Ask for an explanation. Go to the police complaints committee. Write to your local magistrate. And if all else fails bake some cakes with splinters of glass in them, wrap them nicely and leave them where they can be stolen. Thugs are interfering with your Basic Human Rights.
*perplexed and angry  28-Jun-2007 20:19


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