Again, I will start a post with this quote “Crime will expand according to our willingness to put up with it.”

Why?  Because it is incredibly accurate.

Good news out of the UK for once, it seems that the Metropolitan Police are getting sick of the expansion of moped crime.

How are London Police dealing with this?

They are running them the fuck over.  And it works.

Police are now allowed to knock moped thieves off their bikes with police cars to cut crime

Moped crime in London has been cut by over a third in the last year partly because officers are trained to knock offenders off their bikes.

Operation Venice recorded a 36 per cent drop in crime involving mopeds across London since October last year.

While front line officers have been handed sprays to forensically tag both suspects and mopeds on the streets of London – specialised officers are authorised to hit riders with their own vehicle to unseat them. The stops are carried out by uniformed ‘Scorpion’ officers. The highly trained drivers are allowed to physically hit a rider on a moped to knock them off their bikes during a pursuit.

A major step in making this possible was the London Police growing a dick abandoning some PC rules and starting to protect their officers.

Officers feared being jailed or sacked if moped riders were injured during high-speed chases in the past, while criminals have taken their helmets off in the belief it will prevent a pursuit.

But the government has backed new legal protections for officers, and the Metropolitan Police said it targets moped criminals “even when they ride dangerously, discard their helmets and disguise themselves in the belief that this will prevent pursuit and their capture”.

For a while the tactics the police were using just caused more moped crime.

The past two years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of scooters for a range of crimes, including smash-and-grab raids, armed robbery and phone snatches seeing individual criminals swipe up to 30 phones an hour in London.

People are frequently targeted as they come out of Tube stations, while thieves also snatch handbags, high-value watches and other items.

But the adoption of “tactical contact” or “running criminals the fuck over” has worked to reverse that trend.

Police say from January to October last year there were 19,455 such offences across London but from January to October this year the numbers had dropped to 12,419 offences. And in the same period last year there were 12,192 moped thefts across London compared to January 2018 to October 2018 when there were 8,261 offences – a reduction of 32 per cent.

The video released by the Met is great.

Do not run from the London Police on a moped, they will strait up rear-end your ass with a Vauxhall.

Despite this small victory, knife crime is still on the rise in the UK.

Part of that is because of incidents like this:

And this:

The police have virtually no control in these situations.  The police are obviously outmatched by one aggressive person with a knife.

Perhaps it is time that the London Police start broadly issuing guns.

Keep in mind that North Irish Police always carried weapons because because of the political violence the British faced in Northern Ireland from the disgruntled Irish.

Now that London’s violent crime and terrorism rate has made the North Irish look like pacifists by comparison, bringing guns to the streets of London is probably a good idea.

The next time some homesick youth decides to go on a stab-happy rampage, rather than a dozen cops barely control the situation, one just shoots his ass dead on a roundabout, that will send a message to the rest of UK population that they police are no longer pussyfooting around with stabbings and knife terrorism.

Running moped criminals over is a good start.  Shooting criminals wielding knives is a great follow-up.