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BBC: May tackles 'nuisance neighbours'
"Home Secretary Theresa May promises to make it easier for communities to force police to deal with anti-social behaviour."
Anti-social behaviour: Police 'will be forced to act'
Police will be forced to deal with anti-social behaviour if five households in one area complain about another resident, the government says.
Home Secretary Theresa May said a "community trigger" would prevent "horror stories of victims reporting the same problem over and over again".
But Labour dismissed the proposals, which will apply to England and Wales, as "belated and weak". [cont'd...]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16783270
What "Labour" and the "Tories" say about this issue/proposal aside, does this strike people as - broadly speaking - a 'left wing' policy or a 'right wing' policy?
I'd be interested to hear what non-Europeans have to say too.
If the left-right thing sounds trite, then it is deliberate; this thread is about if and/or how policies get shoehorned into certain points along the political spectrum.
Originally posted by FMFReading the article, the plan seems to have germinated straight out of the scripted pages of The Thick of It, but political satire aside, it reads more like what a left wing program might have sounded like, and the Labor response in this instance actually sounds like right wing carping. The whole program smacks of the nanny state gone mad, which is a left wing meme.
BBC: [b]May tackles 'nuisance neighbours'
"Home Secretary Theresa May promises to make it easier for communities to force police to deal with anti-social behaviour."
[quote]Anti-social behaviour: Police 'will be forced to act'
Police will be forced to deal with anti-social behaviour if five households in one area complain about another resident, the ...[text shortened]... policies get shoehorned into certain points along the political spectrum.[/b]
Originally posted by kmax87Yes, because legislating social morality is a "left" wing thing to do 🙄
Reading the article, the plan seems to have germinated straight out of the scripted pages of The Thick of It, but political satire aside, it reads more like what a left wing program might have sounded like, and the Labor response in this instance actually sounds like right wing carping. The whole program smacks of the nanny state gone mad, which is a left wing meme.
Originally posted by FMFWe have other ways of dealing with these sorts of problems. The mom in the following was not charged:
BBC: [b]May tackles 'nuisance neighbours'
"Home Secretary Theresa May promises to make it easier for communities to force police to deal with anti-social behaviour."
[quote]Anti-social behaviour: Police 'will be forced to act'
Police will be forced to deal with anti-social behaviour if five households in one area complain about another resident, the ...[text shortened]... policies get shoehorned into certain points along the political spectrum.[/b]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/okla-mom-shoots-intruder-no-charges_n_1186096.html
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"I've got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?" McKinley asked the dispatcher.
"Well, you have to do whatever you can do to protect yourself," the dispatcher is heard telling McKinley. "I can't tell you that you can do that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your baby."
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I think this is a far more desirable and sensible social outcome than a mother killing herself and her kid in despair after calling the police 33 times! It sends the appropriate message to the morons out there -- 'Go ahead. Make my day.'
Originally posted by FMFRecently, we had a meeting on establishing a neighborhood watch in our subdivision. I asked the cop in charge if it was common for neighbors to drop a dime on each other, and if there was any way to discourage that type of activity.
BBC: [b]May tackles 'nuisance neighbours'
"Home Secretary Theresa May promises to make it easier for communities to force police to deal with anti-social behaviour."
[quote]Anti-social behaviour: Police 'will be forced to act'
Police will be forced to deal with anti-social behaviour if five households in one area complain about another resident, the ...[text shortened]... policies get shoehorned into certain points along the political spectrum.[/b]
He admitted it was fairly common, and increased with a neighborhood watch, and only individual self control stopped it.
I see potential for tit for tat between folks with neighborly disagreements, which ordinarily would be solved with compromise, but which get blown out of proportion by reporting to government.