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.