Silent Crime: Beeston resident says e-scooter crime and muggings are rife in the area

Yorkshire Evening Post

Beeston resident says e-scooter crime and muggings are rife in the area

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00:00You know, trying to speak to residents about the impact of low-level crimes, stuff like

00:06shoplifting, antisocial behaviour, I mean, what, how long have you lived in the area

00:11for?

00:12I've lived in this area for nearly 50 years.

00:16Wow.

00:17And what do you think of the levels of crime in B.C.?

00:21Well, at the moment, it's, it's bad.

00:25Yeah.

00:26There's too many muggings and there's too many stabbings, yeah, and there's a lot of

00:34complaints about these e-bikes.

00:39They're one of the main things, like, you can, you walk around this corner here now,

00:44next minute there's a bicycle in front of you, like, and there's, down that area, there's

00:53been a few muggings just recently, and a lad, he was even, had to take his shoes off.

01:00They pinched his, you know, because the top of the range, some of these, like, some of

01:07these pairs of shoes are, what, £200, like, my grandson, he wears shoes at £200, yeah,

01:15which is ridiculous, like.

01:18Have you been a victim of any of the same stuff we're talking about?

01:21Touch wood, I haven't been a victim for some time, but my next-door neighbour, he had some

01:26ladders pinched, and a few people down the road, they, you put things in your garden

01:35and the next minute they're gone, so you've got to...

01:37I was speaking to some residents at the community centre, two of them gave examples of, you

01:42know, leaving stuff out and it could go in the next day.

01:44Like, I have a garden shed, I haven't had it broke into just lately, like, but now I've

01:51got an alarm on it, you know, that's the situation we're in, you've got to alarm your garden

01:57shed in that light.

01:58Yeah, and what do you think about the police and, you know, security and what they're doing

02:03to stop this stuff?

02:05The police, if you're a motorist, the police are there.

02:09If you want them to arrest a criminal, you can't see them.

02:15They'll ring at you, you get a crime number, and that's about it, like, yeah.

02:21What would you like to see changed?

02:23I'd like to see more policing, yeah, more people on the beat rather than cars.

02:28If there's a traffic accident, five or six cars appear, and it may be something, it may

02:36be fatality, but that's different, but sometimes it's just a knock, yeah, which insurance can

02:44take care of.

02:45You don't need a police car there.

02:47And what do you think would, how would that have an effect, you know, having more police

02:52on the street, sort of patrolling an area like this?

02:54Keep crime down, yeah, because a lot of people, like, I've been in this chemist next door,

03:02and they've been in, and now it's that bad, they keep baby milk off the shelf.

03:10I was in there the other day, and then someone just come in and ran straight out with something.

03:17Well, it's just not on, and I think that's the reason why the doors broke, before you

03:22could get out, now you've got to, you can't, like.

03:26Yeah, yeah.

03:27And do you think there's any other ways of sort of, you know, dealing with this sort

03:31of, you know, the levels of crime and the people who are doing it?

03:35You used to see community people, like, they're not full policemen, but even them wandering

03:47around, I think myself, would help the situation.

03:51Yeah, so something for young people to kind of turn to.

03:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:56Like, now, like, I know we've got a police station just around the road there, but I'm

04:03stood here now talking to you, and I haven't even seen a copper, you know, to me, well,

04:10it's society, I think, you know.

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