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Speaker 1: The trick and we fail at virtually every time, is

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Speaker 1: to not get bogged down in the MINUTII. There are

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Speaker 1: not prizes for coming up with dumb scenarios to try

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Speaker 1: and catch the idea out. Amending the law to allow

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Speaker 1: greater use of locals to grab a scumbag and hold

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Speaker 1: them till the coppers arise is is a good and

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Speaker 1: it's a welcome idea, and that the government are making

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Speaker 1: tangible and positive progress if you think about it anywhere

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Speaker 1: at all, it's on the crime front. More people are

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Speaker 1: in jail, more people are being rounded up, more of

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Speaker 1: us feel safe, the police feel better about doing their

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Speaker 1: job or being allowed to do their job, and the

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Speaker 1: citizens arrest neues is merely adding to that progress. Coming

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Speaker 1: up with scenarios about criminals bringing bigger weapons to robberies

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Speaker 1: won't happen the same way. We haven't seen the gangs

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Speaker 1: give the boot to the coppers over patches at the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister's press conference and I urge you to watch it.

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Speaker 1: At the Prime Minister's press conference this week with Goldsmith,

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Speaker 1: Mitchell and the Commissioner Chambers, they were asked about there

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Speaker 1: being more gang members inferance being the laws failing the

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Speaker 1: more gang members, Yes, said Chambers, Police Commissioner Chambers, there

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Speaker 1: are more gang members because we're putting more groups on

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Speaker 1: the register and the arrests are not going up commensurately

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Speaker 1: because gangs aren't flouting the law, and retail thugs are

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Speaker 1: not going to flout this one either. Thugs are cowarts

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Speaker 1: and they're opportunists. They try it on because they know

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Speaker 1: they can. The moment they know a guard in a

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Speaker 1: supermarket can jump on top of them, they're not going

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Speaker 1: to bother the same way they tried to get work

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Speaker 1: when the traffic light system came in for the job seeker.

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Speaker 1: Bottom feeders are essentially lazy. If it's easy, they'll abuse it,

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Speaker 1: or they'll nick it, crack down, games up, they will

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Speaker 1: give up. This sort of thing should be welcome. This

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Speaker 1: is what we wanted. See, Memories can't be so short

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Speaker 1: that we have forgotten the madness that filled our streets

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Speaker 1: just a year or so back. The ram raids, the

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Speaker 1: gangs that block the road with their intimidation, the non

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Speaker 1: existent police to round them up, the endless ankle braceletters

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Speaker 1: who were reoffending. We hated that. We got furious at that.

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Speaker 1: A year and a half later, the changes happen, the

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Speaker 1: statistics have turned. Let's not get bogged down in a

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Speaker 1: petty game of what if. For more from the Mic

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