Leeds: Reflections on community policing

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How visible are police officers in your community, and do you think their presence makes a difference? What role do you think community policing plays in building trust and reducing crime in your area?

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00:00Police presence is most important because nowadays people don't understand causality.

00:06Basically, you cause a problem, there should be consequences, but there are no consequences

00:11because they're not told of the consequences because there's no one around to show them

00:15consequences. If there were more police presence, or at least legal presence, I think people would

00:23toe the line a lot more because now they know they can't get away with it because there's

00:26somebody around to do something about it. My old saying is, a lot is only a lot when

00:30there's somebody there to enforce it. I think definitely we need more police on the beat

00:35and we need more stop and search. I think that's the only way to get to grips with

00:39petty crime that's on the rise and knife crime and things like that.

00:43Unfortunately, there's a lot of people now that will see police officers and stuff and

00:46I can do what I want anyway, especially for the little bits of petty crime.

00:49I've noticed there's a community policeman who's quite frequently seen walking around the street

00:54I think it's a nice thing, yeah, I think it's a good thing and I'm not sure if we need more of them.

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