Feeling fined, are you?

[crystal ball]

Blimey get boozed up
And assault some one and you would get a lesser fine than some of the fines given out for speeding offences

It will be interesting to compare your examples

 

[Justin Passing]

How can "stats" tell you if a particular crime is on the up or going down? They can only tell you how many arrests / convictions / cautions / reported incidents there are, surely?

No, they really can. It is contingent on a little common sense, education and intelligence. Quite beyond the gentleman on the Clapham omnibus, let alone forum idiots.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I have the perception that drug use is on the up. You can constantly smell weed in most towns and cities. But according to stats. It’s only slightly on the up tick and nothing like what it was in the 90s

Hmm, stats. I can't believe that weed was more prevalent 30 years ago. Nowadays, like you, I'm smelling it everywhere - in the street, walking past houses and cars. Two scuzzers in regulation grey trackromper suits were sitting in the middle of local precinct openly smoking it last summer. Don't remember there being a dope farm on every street in the 90s. Maybe it was different supply in resin form, but it's everywhere now. Police have lost the battle.

 

[noseall]

Don't remember there being a dope farm on every street in the 90s.

The same old duffers conveniently 'don't remember' ever being kids themselves whilst simultaneously blaming present day kids for all of our ills.

Incredible what old duffers are capable of forgetting.

 

[noseall]

My speeding ticket was incurred whilst travelling to the festival
Of speed

Crikey, you aint half spent some stupid money going there.

 

[Odds]

Hmm, stats. I can't believe that weed was more prevalent 30 years ago. Nowadays, like you, I'm smelling it everywhere - in the street, walking past houses and cars. Two scuzzers in regulation grey trackromper suits were sitting in the middle of local precinct openly smoking it last summer. Don't remember there being a dope farm on every street in the 90s. Maybe it was different supply in resin form, but it's everywhere now. Police have lost the battle.

It isn't.
But CBD is.
And it's legal.

 

[mitch66]

What made you bring this irrelevant nugget into the conversation?

You brought yourself in.

 

[noseall]

You brought yourself in.

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[blup]

No, they really can. It is contingent on a little common sense, education and intelligence. Quite beyond the gentleman on the Clapham omnibus, let alone forum idiots.

Not when the statistics are fiddled or just not collected.

Blup

 

[motorbiking]

How can "stats" tell you if a particular crime is on the up or going down? They can only tell you how many arrests / convictions / cautions / reported incidents there are, surely?

you can read it here:

Drug misuse in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

An overview of the extent and trends of illicit drug use for the year ending March 2020. Data are from the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

www.ons.gov.uk

 

[motorbiking]

And here is the data showing the cause of fatalities as reported by plod.

Reported road collisions, vehicles and casualties tables for Great Britain

Detailed statistics about reported personal injury road collisions for Great Britain, vehicles and casualties involved.

www.gov.uk

232 Fatal accident due to speeding. Not even 10%

Less than those caused by defective road surface.
10 x more [than speeding] caused by driver error.
3 x more caused by not being fit or distracted.

Then we have those who died, who were tested for drugs. A jump of 50%.

Drugs in reported road fatalities in Great Britain, data to 2022

www.gov.uk

Everything points to training and attitude, substance abuse, not compliance or non compliance with the numbers on the clock, by otherwise reasonable drivers.

 

[blup]

Speeding fines are a cash cow, no doubt, but a 20 limit outside a school has got to be safer than a 30 limit.

Blup

 

[Brigadier]

The same old duffers conveniently 'don't remember' ever being kids themselves whilst simultaneously blaming present day kids for all of our ills.

Incredible what old duffers are capable of forgetting.

When I was a kid, it was a "ciggie and a single", or some booze nicked from a parent's cupboard.

Even in uni, when I was there in the early nineties, smoking dope / resin / whatever was far less common than nowadays.


The smell of dope is so common now; I even smelled it when putting my washing out the other day (and I live in a quiet, codger-riddled cul-de-sac).
Go for a walk along a road, and I bet you'll smell a driver puffing the stuff within five minutes.



Speaking to a mate at (second-born's) football game yesterday, he said that punters were openly snorting cocaine off car keys, when he was at Cheltenham on Friday. Not even bothering to go to the bogs, or a quiet corner.


In my experience, it is massively-more common nowadays than it was even fifteen years ago, let alone thirty.

 

[Justin Passing]

Then we have those who died, who were tested for drugs. A jump of 50%.

Hell of a jump since I was a lad in people on the phone while driving, too..........

 

[Justin Passing]

Not when the statistics are fiddled or just not collected.

Blup

You can't accuse the validity of statistics per se if people are simply lying.