The National Rural Crime Network (NRCN) – made up of 32 crime commissioners and their forces – ordered the research into serious and organised crime in the countryside and found the traveller community featured prominently in offences such as hare coursing, fly-tipping, farm vehicle theft and poaching.
The only astonishing thing is that it required research...
The study was due for release last October, but the organisation’s bosses ruled it should be delayed so more evidence could be gathered.
Because 'more evidence' will help them fend off the woke mob? What a waste of money! You cannot reason with people like this. No amount of evidence will ever convince them.
A police source said: ‘The report has been hugely delayed as there were real concerns at the fall-out because it found travellers played a big part in rural crime. They’re terrified the woke brigade will jump down their throats, so they asked for more supporting evidence to ensure against that.
'But every month delayed is another month we delay having this out in the open and a proper debate about how we help rural communities who feel under siege.’
The woke mob will scream. Let them. No-one who matters should care.
Last night, Conservative MP Peter Bone said: ‘We’ve had problems in the past when police forces have gone soft on certain sections of the community and, as a result, finding out terrible crimes have been carried out.
'People feel there is one set of rules for us, and one set of rules for travellers. Let’s have the report out and let’s have the arguments.’
There is indeed one set of rules for them and one for the law-abiding settled population. It's been going on for years. And if people are too afraid to admit that, it'll keep going on. Enough is enough.
I live in the semi-rural South of England and it is a very commonly held tenet that the arrival of Travellers in a district means that crime in the area will soar and stay high until the Travellers depart. Experience proves this belief over and over again.
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