The newly landscaped Dulwich Square

[Earl Aelfheah]

17 hours ago, Rockets said:

Reassuring to see some think the increase in crime around the Dulwich Square area is a joking matter....

There isn’t an increase in crime around the square

[Rockets]

It's panto season @Earl Aelfheah so "oh yes there is, crimes like theft from person are on the rise!"

Ask anyone who lives in the area and they will tell you. Alleyns recently had to put a note out to warn parents about the risks posed by phone thieves on bikes targeting the area. The Calton Avenue area seems to be a mobile phone theft hotspot. 

[DulvilleRes]

1 hour ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

There isn’t an increase in crime around the square

But maybe there is an increase in paranormal activity - did a poltergeist PCSO police officer knock on @Rockets door and tell him there was? Maybe it is the only explanation for a police officer no one else saw. 

[first mate]

Tiresome. This habit of obliquely calling other posters liars needs to be called out, even if done in a 'jokey'' way.

[Rockets]

Again, why does @DulvilleRes think this is a laughing matter. It's not. It's serious. People are being, often violently, robbed for their phones in the area. It is not something anyone should be joking about or using in some childish finger-pointing exercise against another poster.

If anyone subscribes to the local Met Engage update they will know how high this is on local residents' list of problems and the steps the Met are taking, and advising people on, to try and counter it.

One can only presume that @DulvilleRes has never been a victim of a phone snatch style crime as if they had one suspects they would not be joking about it. It causes real trauma to the victims and many are local school children.

So no laughing matter.

16 minutes ago, DulvilleRes said:

But maybe there is an increase in paranormal activity - did a poltergeist PCSO police officer knock on @Rockets door and tell him there was? Maybe it is the only explanation for a police officer no one else saw. 

@DulvilleRes I can actually tell you the names of the two PCSOs who knocked on our door as they are part of the PCSO Village ward team....

Edited 4 hours ago by Rockets

[first mate]

DulvilleRes more or less accused Rockets of lying about PCSOs as well as crime rates in Dulwich Village many months ago. It is one thing to disagree about interpretation of data but to insist that another poster's experience is a lie should be disallowed in my view, unless the 'accuser' has absolute proof.

Accusing other posters of lying or suggesting they have mental health problems or are angry seems to be something of an MO for certain members of this forum.

[Cancerian]

Was in a shop in Herne Hill last week and overheard a woman saying she’d had her phone snatched by someone on a bike in Calton Avenue. 

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

I see your unhinged, bargain basement conspiracy theories as a joking matter.