I'm actually in favour of this
So... 
I'm quite heartened by this
Met Police officers are ramming into suspected moped thieves to knock them off their bikes, even during high-speed pursuits.
The dashcam footage - released by the force - was defended by senior police officers who say it helped reduce moped-enabled crime by more than a third
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Once you decide to start stealing bags and phones using mopeds then whatever happens is their own fault.
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I’m with you, Corners. I thought it to be one of the most effective policing methods I’ve seen introduced for dealing with modern day crime.
They aim to bump them at as slow a speed as possible so if the thief is travelling at, say, 40mph and the police bike at 45, it’s a 5mph impact and not as drastic as the footage might lead you to believe.
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Can't say I disagree! (I'm firmly for significantly reduced rights for those that want to remove themselves from accepted society by crime).
.....however, it will be interesting to see what happens (especially for the officer in charge of the police car) following the first fatality of this blatantly highly dangerous practice, when a criminal gets dragged along under the police car and the event is streamed live on facebook by a member of the public... followed by gang riots on the street for the "poor criminal victim of police brutality"!
Will they hang the police driver out to dry?
It does smack a little bit of 'Judge Dredd' to me?!
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Waiting for the wring of hands from those who by their "interfering"in the past has allowed the situation to get to the level it has,it is the same with knife crime, and those who said stop and search by the police was interfering with human rights,
the police are also useing dna sprays on"fleeing" suspects to identify them later
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And the police are using slimline motorbikes rather than cars.
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and in the ones on the footage, they all seem to get up rather quickly, and some run away!
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Some seemed to fall off unaided.
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Hi
Back in the 80's when I got my first sky tv box, there was a programme on sky 1 called "cops". It was a reality tv thing that showed the US's finest doing their job. It included the occasional use of a vehicle to persuade a non believer to understand the ways of law enforcement that it would be churlish not to yield.
That we are in this namby pamby age questioning a bit of force to apprehend some outright criminals is laughable. Get 'em 'cuffed and locked up eh?
JK
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Back in the 80's
Back in the 80s, recovering from flue, I took s friends dog for a walk late one night in a wooded valley leading down to the River Dee and parallel to the road over Grosvenor Bridge. I heard high heels clattering over a wooden decked footbridge suspended over the valley closely followed by the heavier tread of a male. This was followed by a female scream and the sound of somebody being kicked and then heavy tread of the male running back towards the road. I dragged the dog up a steep bank towards the road not knowing whether to pursue the fella or help the woman until I heard a male voice with the woman and so I chased the useless piece of garbage onto the Grosvenor Bridge. Being nearly a foot taller than my 5'6'' he put up a struggle until I slammed him against the bridge parapet and told him that if he wanted a fight he was going over and even if he could swim the fall would kill him.
A quick smack to his midriff and I had him doubled over in a half nelson and an arm lock. The wife of the chap that had gone to the lady's assistance had called the police and a police van stopped alongside me. They said that the chap was known and two of them threw him bodily into the van and locked the doors on the jolly chap. I remember thinking 'That's the way to do it'.
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😂😂😂👍🏻
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and by that I mean the jumpers and runners !!
