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@BioTech 391764 wrote:

Problem is that most the little scrotes round here talk with a London accent. It doesn’t matter that the closest most of them have been to London is watching a few episodes of Eastenders.

true and especially around Norwich and some bits of Ipswich there are plenty of them who are trying to emulate the scummy behaviour found nearer the capital…

there was a time when a woman beater or rapist in either YOI or adults prison would have been viewed as pure scum and their life made very difficult but from what I’m hearing these days there is a lot more misogyny amongst young people so this doesn’t happen any more and girls have a worse time of it than even 30 years ago :hopeless:

worst part of it is a lot of these kids don’t come from particularly shitty family backgrounds, many have liberal/hippy parents who are in denial of what they are really getting up to…

Now one of our top coppers what helped catch the murderer of the Ipswich prostitutes and specialises in investigating the night time economy (Detective Chief Superintendent David Cutler) is leading the hunt to catch the first attacker.

Even bleaker, the second attack was a “date/acquaintance rape”

Although I don’t agree with some laws or some actions of cops on other occasions, in cases like this I’m wholly glad they are there to pick up the pieces, and glad that the large commercial festival organisers are being subjected to the same scrutiny and judgement that the small event organisers have had from Suffolk Constabulary.

I think there is a much wider issue though, that many young people (not the ones on this forum!) have less respect for each other than when I was in my teens and they believe “might makes right”.

@p0ly 391909 wrote:

1357 people were k holed at symmetry… sad times

@spangle 391892 wrote:

I was very surprised to hear bout it on the first night, then another one on the second. Really didn’t seem like that was mostly a middle class family arty kind of thing, no-one even really seemed that drunk and I saw no drugs! From what I could hear on the radio (I was working) the police did have a few leads and CCTV to go on…I hope they get the nasty bastards that would do something like that

TBH I don’t think drugs / alcohol are the real problem in these situations. Its simply some young people are now a lot more aggressive and controlling to others, and the event being over safe numbers for the available security/surveillance resources.

The “anonymity of crowds” means that events stop being “self-policing” after the numbers increase. Even my friends who put on much smaller events both licensed and unlicensed have found that negative incidents (thefts, fighting, low level sexual assaults) increase as their events get bigger – especially with crowds who distrust authorities and so tend to sort out their difference by vigilanté actions what lead to groups taking sides and further violence.

For a crowd to be self-policing there needs to be a consensus throughout that any form of bullying/violence is unacceptable. and sadly what I have noticed with my own eyes in the last 5 years is that at all social events people (not just teenagers, in fact most are quite well behaved) are on a much shorter fuse and more competitive – even “banter” can erupt into violence at events where you don’t normally expect such things to happen.

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