TBH I think thats a risk with any large rave in London unfortunately.
As for “confidence”, I expect the bulk of people doing this (both the rave and the robbing!) are in their teens and early 20s and at that age you don’t give a shit. me and my mates didn’t back then, we weren’t thinking about stuff like long term careers, prospects, even sometimes our own continued personal safety! Some folk want to put on raves and DJ and do sound / light etc, others unfortunately want to act like cunts at raves and rob people.
the problems with London raves have been going on for about 10-12 years now – for some reason for a few years in the late 90s big unlicensed raves in London and surrounding areas seemed to go off OK without so many people acting like idiots. I’m not even sure exactly why myself, it may simply be because the economy was better, more people had jobs so it didn’t occur to folk to rob one another.
Back then and until the mid 2000s when it started going to shit we used to be able to get away on here with blatantly saying what area/town the rave was in, cops must have seen it but didn’t care as the property owners didn’t care as much (this was a time when folk had loads of money, there wasn’t thought of a recession or long drawn out war (we thought iraq and middle east would cave in and hand over their oil) and there was fuckloads of “spare” property around that big companies weren’t too fussed if it got partied, at least until some muppets totally trashed the buildings.
Then about 2005 cops started actively monitoring this site (they still do) which is why we discourage people being too blatant. And they go to facebook and are blatant about what they do (and everything else in their lives) on their real names because they think “wow, there are no moderators here and we are allowed “free speech””.
Even today “inside the M25” is a big place, it crosses the boundaries of about 5 constabularies. metpol alone are really busy with even worse shit,trying to catch gangs and other folk badly hurting one another, so are surpol, TVP, Essex etc.
they arent immediately going to bother looking for youths breaking into semi derelict warehouses in the area until either the locals or the property managers call the feds, but as soon as they do its when stuff like facebook gets looked into. and then facebook admins bend over and let feds take any data they want from them as soon as they see a badge and shield, and there are nice data trails of real names, peoples friends, them bragging about what other crimes they have done etc.
People do get brought to judgement for illegal raves in various ways, which tends to eventually scare away normal people who really don’t want to be constantly on bail/ paying off fines/ on tag / in court or prison, and who aren’t selling bare drugs to replace confiscated kit (I know not every crew does this)
Many get caught and bitterly regret it later when they realise they’ve lost thousands of pounds of property, sometimes their liberty, and worse of all often their health and their friends, this stuff does affect people emotionally (many try and cope by taking more drugs). but when you’re younger you’re sometimes overconfident…
