Attack on a child

Zoetoes

virgin_moneysaver wrote: »

I think its awful what happened & in the heat of the moment the police are always blamed but its often out of the PC's control - my female relative is a WPC, one night they were the only two able to respond (2 women) and she was chasing a couple of blokes over wasteland after they ran from the premises they had broken into when she just stopped & turned back to the van as they could have easily overpowered her, they are desperately under funded, and she gets frustrated as if you do get the scumbags to court, some solicitor or do-gooding social worker gets them off with 'product of broken-home, no parental influence blah blah blah & they get a slap on the wrist & leave court with a big grin

hope all the victims on this thread are recovering

This is partly my point, I'm not in any way making any personal comments about your relative, so please don't be offended. Often I find the police are going for the easier jobs such as a criminal damage charge over my 6 year old son knocking an already loose screw out of neighbours gate rather than taking action over my 13 year old son being attacked by a gang, some of them 16 years old.

Don't get me wrong, I know they're not just police officers but are human with fears like the rest of us but I'm sure when they decide on this line of work they don't expect to be cake decorating.

Obviously with your relative, for example, she needed some sort of back up and shouldn't put herself in danger, after all her life is worth more than whatever they'd nicked.

suzysue_2

Oh this bloody country just gets worse!
I am so sorry to hear what your lad went through and hope he recovers ok.

Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me in the least; a few years ago my then 10 yr old son was attacked by a bloke. My son had been visiting a friend from school in an area he wasn't used to.
Son and a few friends were walking around when this guy came running down his path and started to strangle my son...(apparently some older lads had been given him some grief days before) I only found out 2 days later as son was scared to tell me as I had told him not to walk in the area he was in.
Son still had marks on his neck, police were rang, one week later they arrived and said there was nothing they could do and the guy had had some trouble so it was understandable that he lost his temper!!! My son had never been there before and was still a little boy.

The police told us to have a word with the bloke and see if there was anything that my son had not told us...I went round to be confronted by this huge guy who told me if he saw my *ing bleep bleep again then he would break his legs.
I left in shock and didn't bother to ring the police again.

I later found out that if it wasn't for my sons friend repeatedly kicking the bloke in shins then he wouldn't of let go of him.

Thank goodness his friend stood up to this bully or god knows what would of happened.
Still makes me so mad 6 yrs on!

moonflight

I am sorry to hear about all of your recent incidents with other people.

Unfortunately there will be times in all of our lives where we will be exposed to other people that are unstable and may cause trouble.

For children we need to encourage them to stand up for themselves in order to survive in the future, make them aware of situations and how they can be avoided. I note that some situations which have been mentioned could not have been avoided and in these cases the individual needs to understand that there is no force protecting them and that they must be prepared to defend themselves in anyway they can to survive.

Changing others is something outside of our control, worrying, getting angry and confused is a waste of energy we need to accept things for as they are. If you want law enforcement to take notice of you then you need to take a stand be firm, understand that you are just dealing with people in a job, make a complaint phone your solicitor take action for yourself as I can assure you everyone who shows empathy isn't going to do it for you.

You only live once so make it worthwhile for you and your family, don't let anyone or anything get in your way!

laurad85

i come from quite a large family (mum had 2 sets of twins, poor thing!) and we couldnt play in our garden when we were growing up without some group of teenagers wanting to have a go at us. i dunno if they felt threatened or were trying to show off but we were always called names or had to run in the house before or we would be beaten up (we wernt the type of kids to call names back or get into fights). i remember my teenage brothers running home in tears because they had been hit with a dog lead (their backs had the marks of the lead) and their friend had their eye socket smashed. another time a group of lads tried stealing our bikes and tried to hit my brothers with sticks, without thinking i stood infront of my brothers to stop them getting hurt which thankfully worked (i was angry at the time because i could see my neigbours watching out of the window and they didnt even try to help-afterwards they even had the cheek to say how brave i was to help my brothers like that!). both times i remember the police being called and once they came and saw how many of us there was they didnt even fill in a police report. they just thought a big family must be asking for trouble, but we were kids who went to church every sunday! my brothers and all 6 foot tall now and i would like to see those thugs try it on with them now!

moonflight

The people that cause this usually are not mature enough to deal with their life so they have to cause trouble when they grow up usually they stop this type of behaviour if not usually end up in jail.

It is mostly younger adults/teenagers who act like this as they have not got the experience in life to realise any different they will all realise after a time, as no one is special if they go around causing trouble every day they will eventually get into trouble that they can't handle which will cause them to stop. There are circumstances that when these people grow up they don't grow out of this behaviour this is the worst case a young teenager in an adults body, these are the people who are not accepted by society and usually end up in prison before they learn to grow up.

Sometimes we need to open our eyes to see the world around us