tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post3863354025230058802..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: Discrimination?Quiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-55135581536156333122011-07-20T20:08:53.264+01:002011-07-20T20:08:53.264+01:00I think that more should be installed in places wh...I think that more should be installed in places where large groups of youngsters tend to gather. Take a group of shops I know; and there is a cashpoint there. An elderly person....oh lets say early 40s (that is elderly to a teenager!) wants to use the cashpoint. He sees a group of teenagers and thinks they are ok, I will use the cashpoint. What he doesn't know is that regularly these large groups of teens (I know that in this place I am talking about it was 50+) used to surround him, using intimidation but not actually meaning or wanting to rob him. This genuinely happened night after night and not just weekends. A local shop eventually employed a security guard. The police were called regularly and got so bad that a dispersal order was issued. The teens were not only intimidating cashpoint users, but also users of the local shop and the take away. They were also regularly drinking at weekends. If one of these devices had been fitted early on, would it have dispersed the kids? Don't know but it may have saved a lot of time and effort. Nowadays it is dead quiet around those shops. Those teens are now probably in or about to start university because I am not talking about a sink estate where this happened. Many of them live in houses I can only dream about affording.thespecialonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514789597629728269noreply@blogger.com