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...and this time last year the Safer Neighbourhood Team organised exactly that when there was the annual outbreak of this kind of robbery...

Maybe it was aliens. Maybe it was a false flag black op by the Marxist-Globalist London Cycling Campaign. Maybe it was caused by masked Sadiq Khan when he was throwing custard pies in the face of innocent London drivers as part of the War On Motorists, and a nun who was driving a minibus of donations at 20mph to an orphanage (a puppy orphanage!) was blinded, had to swerve, hopped the kerb, and smacked into a stone memorial so hard it broke into three parts. Or maybe it was the usual combination of a dickhead driving too fast and too stupidly.

There is a spate of kid-on-kid robberies this time of year every year. It's as regular as the clocks changing or the leaves falling. Usually it's after school as kids are walking home. Often it's same little group of robbers that keep going until they (almost inevitably) get arrested. Very unpleasant for the victim. It should always be reported to police. I'm always happy to criticise the Met - but my impression is that the Community Safety Teams (beat cops) have always been very responsive to this kind of issue. It is worth speaking to them as well as just 999/101.

You don't usually end up with bits of car and lumps of stone fountain sprayed across the pavement with careful and safe driving... I've searched online and can't see any news reports or Tweets etc it whatsoever - although plenty of other reports about other serious crashes along that same stretch of road. Perhaps I'm just overlooking the reports or using the wrong search terms. Perhaps it's a sign of how normalised road violence is that this is an unremarkable event. 🤷

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Truly a sign of #southwarkderangementsyndrome when you misunderstand how a spreadsheet works and immediately leap to the conclusion that the council is engaged in an anti-poor leaf-clearing conspiracy.

Heber Rd primary school is surrounded by houses. Dulwich Wood primary school is surrounded by blocks of flats. A block of flats faces onto the back of Kingswood. Alleyns wasn't shy to put up portakabin classrooms directly opposite the houses on Hillsboro Rd for years! Meanwhile we've got the Dulwich Society objecting to construction that is "visible"...

The existing student accommodation on Burrow Rd (a couple of streets away) is 7 storeys tall + a service floor. No-one has their knickers in a twist about that building. In any case, we have a housing crisis. We can't carry on with the "norm". That's what got us into this mess. If we are not going to build dense on ex-industrial sites overlooking a train station, then where are we going to build more housing? On playing fields?

That attachment isn't working for me. Or maybe it is working and you've just got access to my DNA through a virus I downloaded. Either way I don't see a statue...

Totally bizarre narratives being pushed on this thread: student accommodation shouldn't be allowed because there aren't any universities nearby (news flash: London students commute like everyone else) and because only affordable housing should ever be built (news flash: that's not going to happen). This is a little sliver of land on an industrial site over a transport link. If we don't let student housing get built here, it's just not going to get developed. Right now it is housing no-one.

1) Student accommodation is NOT by definition short term. Short term lets are for 90 days or less. https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/housing-and-land/improving-private-rented-sector/guidance-short-term-and-holiday-lets-london 2) it's easy to imagine things are a conspiracy when you don't understand how they work.

...all of which has got sod all to do with the topic of this thread. 🤣🤣

In positive news from West Norwood: there's a nice-looking new pub opened up next to the library/Co-Op called Badger Badger. https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2024/08/pubs-should-be-for-everyone-new-pub-called-badger-badger-opens-in-west-norwood-today-friday-2-august-2024/

Just been through West Norwood and was stunned at the destruction caused by a crash. There is an 1899 marble drinking fountain standing in a pedestrian island outside the West Norwood Library - or at least there should be. The thing has been smashed into three bits, knocked across the pavement, and sprayed with broken glass and bits of some kind of vehicle. Presumably the vehicle that did this must have been travelling with some force when it mounted the kerb and sent the stone blocks flying: significant weight or speed or both. Supposedly this is a 20mph zone. Look around and you'll see this kind of damage (hopefully less dramatic) all over the shop: smashed bollards, knocked over traffic signs, squashed lights and askew kerbstones are hardly rare. If these were blast marks from explosions, we'd think this was a dangerous place and worry about what would have happened if we were standing there when it happened. We wouldn't let our kids go where buildings were covered in the recent pock marks of bullets. But we all seem to ignore the signs of road violence and accept it... Edit: this might have happened almost two weeks ago??? https://x.com/PaoloIskandar64/status/1847684879011446917

Welcome and good luck, Hop!

As a postscript to this from May 2023: this week, 7 men have each been sentenced to 9 to 17 years imprisonment for their role in this shooting. This seems like a good result for the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Service. 17 months between incident and sentencing is impressive considering the number of defendants and victims, the forensic evidence there must have been, and courts system totally underwater. It seems like a bad result for the offenders, who have thrown their own lives in the bin for f*** all. https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24664297.seven-men-jailed-shootings-peckham/

I suppose everyone's got to have a hobby.

Yeah, well, you can prove anything with facts, can't you? The difference between the volume of crime identified by police and the British Crime Survey is irrelevant here for two reasons: first, because what we're interested in is the relative change in either of those rates (is it going up, down or nowhere?) and not the absolute level. And second because the types of crime the OP is claiming to have increased significantly is the type of crime that DOES get reported to and recorded by police...vehicles have unique identifiers and insurers that won't pay out without a crime number. This is 3 pages dissecting a load of toss vomited up by the OP without any evidence.

Well, quite. It was an assertion without evidence and it can be dismissed without evidence. That junction has CCTV running 24 hours a day precisely because the LTN was put in...

lol!

Seeing a man in the street is evidence of seeing a man in the street. It's not evidence of a crime wave. HTH.

This is brilliant. 10/10, no notes. 👏👏👏 It's like whoever it was that was making out they basically lived in North Korea because they didn't get their way on whether a road should be closed or not.

A reminder of what the basis of that perception is: OP saw one (1) "suspicious male". Christopher Hitchins was wrong about a lot of stuff but his line "that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" is bang on here.

Agreed that I am anonymous and unrepresentative of anyone else, just like OneDulwich is. Agreed there is a lot of uncertainty about what OneDulwich really is. What objective has OneDulwich achieved in the last 4 years of complaining? The LTN remains in place and apart from a few pro- and anti-hobbyists bickering on the EDF, the rest of the world has moved on.

The Paper Cat, a new children's bookshop, has opened up at 25 Half Moon Lane in Herne Hill (between Bon Velo bike shop and Flo's Cafe). It has a great range of kids books and looks very nice too. A good addition to the shops at Herne Hill! https://www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/