Police Target Gangs with Refreshing Honesty

A police action has been launched in High Wycombe to target gangs of teenage muggers who prey largely on other young people.

The pattern of crime goes a little beyond that, however, and the police have been refreshingly honest about it:

Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.

Obviously, there isn't as much noise being made as if the ethnicities in this report were reversed.

Although I'm not one to use the ridiculous term 'hate crime', I would say that such attacks transcend mere robbery and enter the realm of racist crime - what's good for the goose is certainly good for the gander.

Even if the police won't recognise this aspect fully, at least they are no longer bound by political correctness to the point where they pretend to be blind to it.

Here is the full report from Bucks Free Press:

A POLICE operation targeting robbery hotspots has slashed muggings of young people by 100 per cent, officers said.

Patrols including stop and search on the Rye, Desborough Road, Eden and a skate park saw robberies fall to zero from 177 last year, they said.

This was among 12 to 19-year-olds. Operation Gauntlet will run to the end of the school holidays.

Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.

DC Paul Bowen said: “Officers would still stop large groups regardless of ethnicity but they would have at the back of their mind that the robberies are committed by this group of ethnic minorities.”

About 80 per cent of last year’s robberies were committed by gangs of Asian and afro-Caribbean people, he said.

Of last year’s attacks, 44 included the showing or threat of a knife.

Some 73 were stopped and searched this year. This led to five arrests on drugs charges.

He said: “It is unusual to see so many people involved in a robbery.”

Officers also visited schools before pupils broke up for the summer to mark property so it can be returned to its owner if recovered.

Yet DC Bowen said the operation was not needed all year round as the robberies were common to the summer months.

Anyone stopped was given a “receipt” by police.

A knife arch and drugs swab kit was used by officers to demonstrate how they are tackling crime.

With thanks to a reader, Sarah, who sent this tip in.