Party Vibe

its not perfect but has changed loads in our lifetime. I know older people have had a rough time from them for trying to buck the system in the 70s and 80s and things still aren’t good for lower classes especially minority groups in urban areas, but I am myself non white, live on a working class estate (albeit in the “private” sector bit), have been arrrested a few times and have a minor criminal record.

nowadays minor drugs posession results in a caution which is a crimnal record but isn’t even a conviction (I had to research this as I might volunteer for the community radio station and they enforce CRB checks). The present government has basically said all small posession (including now controlled RC’s and new ones if the offender is caught in a situation where they clearly are being used for human consumption) only warrant a caution.

Murdoch and his cronies haven’t been completely let off the hook either. The case is ongoing, A whole newspaper of his has closed, Several of his staff who were more closely involved in the interception of the phone calls have been arrested and had their houses raided, which is still a traumatic experience for middle class folk what think they are “within the law”. Also I know plenty of ravers what used to buy their papers as the Guardian was “too diffficult to read and pretntious”.

TBH I now find many police officers and other authority figures within place likes senior healthcare management (including mental health) to be far less judgemental and angry in their views than the ordinary person, especially when it comes to matters regarding race, religion or contentious lifestyles. I am personally aware of many occasions where the Police have intervened to stop people taking matters into their own hands in alternative communities which would have resulted in a spate of tit for tat revenge attac ks and even murders.

at the same time there are loads of folk wider British who would like to see this site shut down as it openly discusses hard drugs use. we are regularly reported to and monitored by various authorities in the UK and foreign nations, and yet are permitted to exist, and our incoming traffic shows users even from countries with harsh regimes being openly able to access this site. Many cannot post for fear of being traced, but they can at least read here.

it depends on region a lot.

TVP are under resourced for the population size of the area and also the amount of motorways/fast roads – before airwave I used to listen on scanner and it was surprising to the unitiated how few coppers actually are on duty. bear in mind also a lot of coppers’ time (not just black rats) is taken up dealing with the aftermath of road traffic collisions. specialist units like CID and dogs are expensive especially to deploy at night.

This is unfortunately also why people think its a good area for raves/parties. its because there is too much other violent crime, not because the cops are soft. But now the violence has spilled over into the music events. Similar situations exist in metpol and avsom areas.

Here in Suffolk the bulk of murderers, rapists and violent folk are caught and go to prison for a long time – and yet this is a area full of stubborn people where best friends will fight to the death due to a disagreement they had in middle school and that was the case even when we had hanging (its a lot like Asia in many respects) There has been a rise in robberies but matched with a similar rise in arrests. This is however because its a less densley populated area with a lot of folk with strong moral/religious views (a variety of faith) who will swallow their pride and report incidents even if they don’t agree with “the system” – for instance most of my cycling group are lefties/greens/anarchists but if folk are driving or even cycling like idiots they will tell the authorities.

that said I think the main barrier between the Police and younger people is drugs being criminalised. this understandably makes folk wary of all authorities, and takes up coppers’ time which could be used for solving violent crime.