MrAHC;224820 wrote:
only the same as normal, but to you every week there clamping down on something :laugh_at:
nah, I know the area he lives in and TVP used to be pretty lax there… a few years back I saw cops from that very same force turn up at a rave after it had finished and just ignore a huge pile of ketamine on a door frame my mates has just racked up – also people used to get busted with significant amounts of stuff and be let free with cautions… there used to be a rave every weekend and for years nothing happened to the organisers
however there was a big problem with crack/smack dealers – but whats happened is TVP have busted a lot of them – now they are turning on the “lower level” people involved with raves or party drugs.
similar things have recently happened to other friends of mine from round that way.
exactly the same is happening in East Anglia…
a lot of it is happening due to monitoring of vehicle movements and CCTV surveillance, once a vehicle is seen at a rave it is now scrutinised closely wherever it goes (two of my mates from round that way got busted for traffic violations and lost their licenses, and the cops even said “we’ve been following you about as you go to illegal raves”)
last time I went to Reading (last christmas) you couldn’t get to some parts of town without running the gauntlet of several cops and a sniffer dog, they had even put up a steel barrier to limit where you could walk so you’d have to go past the cops… now I lived there for 20 years of my life and have never seen that level of police control before…
Whilst things were bad with cops in the 80s/90, from 1997-2004 (and particularly 1997-2001) the authorities in Southern England cut people a lot of slack, and let us get away with loads.
Now for various political reasons they are going back to late 80s/early 90s levels of enforcement (I also suspect that a surge in police resources and the “muslim threat” turning out to be far less of a actual threat has something to do with this…)
