My bike was stolenfrom uni campus. University refused to show footage until I got police. Contacted police they said I didn’t need their consent. I find the bike YEARS later in town. The owner tells me they bought from a pawn shop. Police tells me ‘yeah, these shops come and go very quickly’. I go to the bike shop I bought the bike from (literally 5 shops away from the pawn shop). They tell the police they’re unable to produce proof of sale?! Several days later, the pawn shop turns into a massage parlour. I have no faith in humanity. If your bike is stolen. Steal it back. Rig it with alarms and trackers because no one cares about you.
I had my phone stolen, tracked ot to an address and the police said there was nothing rhey could do! I damn near drove there myself to demand my phone back! Snatched off my lap (wheelchair user) as I'm getting off the bus! Bastards.
I got my house broken into while I was at work a few years ago. My pregnant partner was inside and identified the burglar. I confronted the burglar who came at me with a metal bar . I cant say too much apart from I defended myself 😉 the thief now walks with a permanent limp.
Your a hero the world needs more people like....I applaud you sir ...if I could only have half the imagination you have I'd be a best selling author ♥️
That's the point, the Govts know they are financially broke and are going to collapse so they are allowing criminals to get away without being punished as a means to punish the public and keep the public distracted from prosecuting Govt persons.
Even if you "stop the criminal" as you say. The actual crime will still go on because phone stealing is serving a bigger purpose. As there is far more people involved that are outside of the UK, who are applying the pressure for the thefts maybe. I can't tell, but stolen phones. Pop up in so many different parts of the world. This was just based on iPhones
That was a very good documentary! She managed to track a bike , meet a phone thief and another one that buys the phone on her own, and police is doing what?
Probably making sure no-one is flying the 🏴 No England game, no offensive flags (with the obvious exception of Plasticine, black flag of Islam etc these are ALWAYS ALLOWED 🙄)
Police is doing nothing, they don't waste their time . if caught, a theft will be released next day without any penalty. Why should they make any afford?
100% its a complete organised crime, they have the people stealing aka the general chavs, the person who holds it and another person who sells it that lives in a semi nice area so people dont question it.
The police have bigger fish to fry. People should take responsibility and stop buying £1000 phones. They should also not walk down the street and use their phones and pay no attention to surroundings. The police cant possibly concentrate on mobile phone theft. Be responsible!
@@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799why on earth shouldn’t you be able to have or wear what you want without fear of being robbed! If there was a severe punishment for it then the crimes wouldn’t happen (at least not so much). Look at the UAE! Theft is so low because of the punishment. Siding with the absolute filth and scum that commit these crimes by saying people shouldn’t have or wear expensive things is crazy! It’s akin to saying that a woman who wears sexually attractive clothing is asking to be assaulted. Stop sticking up for the criminal!
@@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799 And a thief has no time to know the price of a fone id doubt within secs . They shall steal a phone where a person probs looks as if they arent paying attention to their surroundings i suspect.
I have a small group of friends in London , 4 out of 6 of us have experienced this over the years . Two phones snatched , one bike , one car stolen from home, all of these reported to police but zero help from them.
@@userxyz64 It depends what state you're in. Rate of violent crime in California per 100k. 420 in 2012 and 500 in 2022. NY 400 in 2012 vs. 430 in 2022. Florida went from 490 down to 250 in the same period. At least red states are willing to prosecute and it shows.
@@burmy1552 blah blah nobody cares mate murica is worse for crime for any country in the anglosphere bar nobody across the country individual state stats are ultimately irrelevant, with only the UK, Sweden and France anywhere near as close to the US lets be real brotha
I used to live in England for 35 years and it's an absolute joke for crimes over there and bikes and phones stolen..I now live in Finland for the last 15 years and leave my bike outside our house every night and never been stolen. Feel very safe here on my phone without fear of some RAT stealing it
@vernondjoe I've zero interest in true fins point of view and I really hope they don't get back into power here after all the trouble the party has brought to Finnish people
reminds of the story that andrew tate said that made him claim never wear watches or drive nice cars in london, he bought the aston martin db11, went to a casino, as he got out some s**ts were in a van nearby with a laptop that traced the code of the key as he locked it and were able to unlock the car with a laptop, drove off, when he called the police they sent 2 little asian women in a vauxhall to the scene, when andrew called his mate to pick him up in the ferrari to go and hunt down his car, the 2 female officers started trying to arrest him and asked him to wait while a male officer came to the scene to arrest him, unbelievable, it felt like a story he made up to be funny, but after seeing these documentaries he wasnt lying
I was hit by a big E scooter on the pavement in broad daylight. I broke my hand, and the person responsible fled the scene. I had witnesses, and I was admitted to the emergency room. Despite the incident occurring on High Street at 4 PM in the summer with many cameras around, the police refused to investigate. All I received was a letter from them saying they couldn't look into it.
I've a Police Superintendent by the proverbials for rudeness. Involves a MP writing to him as well. So far no action on the crimes you are talking about. However, I do have a complaint going in about Sir Mark Rowley tomorrow. He's the data controller for the met, so he takes the can for the failures to handle a subject Access request. 10 page complaint. List of the laws broken. List of the code of ethics breaches [and hence laws broken]. He can't be investigated by his own force, so its MOPAC. Now MOPAC are interesting. They have disconnected their telephone number and won't allow anyone to their new office. That's generated a complaint. Now Khan is the PCC in charge of MOPAC. That complaint handling is quite prescriptive in law. There's Statutory Guidance on Police Complaints. For example monthly updates. The current backlog at MOPAC is 10 months. So Khan is subject to the law on complaints. I'm pretty certain they will cock up, and the complaint will go in about him, which means he's under IOPC investigation. How's he going to get out of that? It also happened to a neighbour. Hit from behind, e-motorbike on the pavement. In a wheelchair.
They looked at the camera and saw it wasn’t intentional. This is the Uk you can get less than 10 years for murder and if you died guess what. He still wouldn’t be charged as it can be proven to be an accident. If you were a rich on the other hand, that person would do years in jail but you’re not so
I grew up in London in the peak crime era of the 80s and 90s, and well, it's getting that bad again. I tell people never to get your phone out, stay in large groups, never look like you've got anything valuable, if you see anyone looking at you for more than a second than go somewhere else, etc. It's really lawless now, and you have to look out for yourself because you can't rely on the authorities. Went back last year to see family and friends, saw one lady crying because her purse got snatched, and I had to get it back. Got followed by muggers on public transport and had to confront them in front of group of people before they made their move. It's a shit show.
In 80's and 90's in East London in Newham I did not have any fear except from the NF. Its now that crime is rife especially robberies, stabbings/murder. Police stations shut down. Police are not doing what the taxpayer need, we need help, protection and if we don't get it then the people will take the law into their own hands.
@@rjws69 25 years ago 3 lads and a girl were wrecking my garden at ten at night, they were high. The cop said lock yourself in we will be there asap. 4.30pm the next day one arrived, he did not even take notes. Where (over 30 years ago) I worked for a time where, they used come in for coffee and chats to the women on and off all night( the women should have been working). The station was across the road, Were they underfunded then as well?
@@rjws69 Exactly I live near Saffron Walden and the local police station was closed and later turned into a block of flats. Not to mention the fact that I only ever see 1 bobby patrolling the town whilst they're having to use the council offices as their headquarters.
I had my phone stolen in work (a shop) We gave the police his name, address, and video of the theft. We knew who he was.. Nothing was done. Got a phone call from the police a year or so after the event saying the case has been dropped.
You've got his name, address and know what he looks like,why involve the old bill when you know they'll do absolutely nothing.Sort it yourself,go about it the right way and you're guaranteed a result with no comeback.
Prime example of why I’m taking my family out of the cesspool that this country has become. The lack of policing is just insane. The only crime I’ve ever reported that led to an arrest was a racial slur against me. My feelings clearly matter more than my life.
I moved to NZ in 2016. At first I still carried that paranoid suspisious mindset, nowadays I don't lock my front door, I can leave my garage open and not be paranoid about having stuff taken. My kids walk to school. Kids all ride nice moutain bikes but don't lock them up outside the shops.
Ya can just don't get caught. Legal system is a waste of time and resources. If you feel like you can solve your problems morally and are confident I'd say do it and deal with the consequences. Shit happens and rolls downhill, as long as you avoid the most of the shit you can you should be good.
Ok Rambo. Didn't notice that the majority of victims are female or feminine / weak men, the usual people who get offended if you either misgender them or don't use their pronouns.
Its a sad way to make a living, and I consider this guy just a sad person really. Making a living from stealing peoples phones ffs. Has he ever had a PROPER job. He probably still lives with his mother. The young should stop seeing guys like this as being cool. Their just pretty pathetic people.
I remember the days growing up, when I simply leant my bike up against a fence and went into a shop. Our bikes were in open bike sheds all day long at school next to the road and never was there one missing. We didn’t have locks on our bikes because we didn’t need them
How about changing the government? You've only had conservatives in government for 14 years. Do you think the theft of cell phones and bicycles was as high before that? You vote for populists and are mad that nothing changes.
This is a real eye opener for me, I'm an Aussie living in Thailand the people in my neighbourhood aren't well off many of them rely on a small motorcycle to transport their families. I often leave my motorbike outside a shop with the key in and my shopping in a bag ,when I go to local bars and restaurants restaurants i leave my phone on the table when I go to the toilet and my mail order packages are left on an outside table if I'm not at home, all these things could easily be stolen but in the last 9 years it's never happened, says a lot about British society vs Thailand
Agree mate, I am here in Samui. Even if you leave your card in the ATM someone hands it in at 7/11. I don't lock my doors and theft is very rare. I left UK 23 years ago, I could see it coming back then.
Actually, it says a lot about British punishment system vs Thai. You don't wanna spend years in a Thai prison, but many British felons live better in a British prison than outside.
The penalties for simple theft in Thailand is up to 3 years. For robbery it could be up to 10 years. Thai society places a high value on community and familial relationships, which can act as a deterrent to theft. With a significant portion of the economy relying on tourism, there is a vested interest in maintaining a safe environment for visitors. This includes efforts by both the government and local communities to minimize theft.
Similar to the kid at 34:00, I was attacked at 14 by a group known to the police and advised not to press charges for the same reasons. Still have the scar on my face 16 years later.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine,he can't see out of one eye because of It,as the knife scratched his eye when they cut his face,never caught em too.
I had a cultural shock as being from Baku on my first week in London. My phone was snatched from my hand by someone who was on the bike and with hoodie in front of my uni on the second day at the uni. I called the police, but after they arrived I could not describe his face to the police. Since It just happened in front of my uni, I asked the police to check the CCTV to see the thief instead of asking me how he looked like, but the police refused to do it by saying that police didn't have permission for that. I told them I can ask the security guy, I am a student here but they still were not interested. I was very surprised by this inaction of the police. Since Baku is the safest city in Europe, one can walk with the phone on the streets at night alone as a girl without any concerns, as nobody will touch to you, because they are afraid of the Azerbaijani police very much and think that one phone, a wallet or one rape doesn't worse their long years in prison...There are CCTV everywhere in Baku just like in London. They can find the thieves in a couple of hours in Baku. If this British journalist could find the thieves easily, why the police cannot find them while having all the administrative resources?
@@KentPatriot Baku isn't even in Europe, don't believe a word they say. Azerbaijan is quite a lawless country and the border regions are a no go zone for tourists, single women. There is criminality and corruption everywhere in that country, plus it's islamic and has sharia courts.
I had a bike stolen with an Apple AirTag attached so the bike could be narrowed down to a handful of apartments. The police didn’t even bother to look. The statement about investigating crimes which have a chance of being solved is clearly untrue!
I’ve had my bike stolen too it makes my blood boil when someone just takes something you worked to hard to purchase I saved up money to finally get a trek fx3.😢
My sister lives in a bad area in Leeds, and her neighbours had stuff in their garden shed stolen and their house broken into. They called the police and their response was "Maybe you should move somewhere else". Not even joking, useless. Criminals don't "feel" untouchable, they are.
My EBike got stolen from my hospital workplace security access bike garage, the security team had the CCTV recorded and made a cd waiting in the hospital security office, for them to pick up, the police spent 3 months just to tell me they don't have a direct phone number for the security office, there is no direct number, you call switchboard and are directed. They never went to pick up the CCTV cd, or ever investigated it
We need more vigilantes if the police aren’t going to do their work! I’m pleased to see people making a difference & taking action & getting their goods back!
@@itsoccamsrazorat side point you have to stop the simple mindedness of blaming everything on immigration. Literally most criminals in this video were white and most victims from another ethnic background. Open your eyes.
Who would have thought 14 years of Tory governments absolutely gutting Police budgets would lead to this? Neighborhood policing teams? gutted. PSCO numbers? gutted. Getting a police response for reporting things like a burglary? gone. SOCO attending a scene of burglary to recover fingerprints/DNA left by offenders? gone. Now you talk to a civilian call taker who logs the report, but that is it. Thanks David, Theresa, Boris, Liz and Rishi!
A large part of it is the ''targets'' nonsense Labour started. Police and many industries focus on meeting ''targets'' as quick and easily as possible rather than doing what needs to be done on a day to day basis tot he best of their ability. Car thefts, shop lifting, burglary, illegal immigrants etc are all difficult to investigate and take time and effort. So police ignore them and target petty non crimes which are easy to deal with and meet their targets for the week. Doesn't help that we no longer live in a high trust society due to being swarmed with people from low trust cultures.
The rules set mean they can’t go after these crimes. They have targets to meet. Spend a week tracking a phone you might not get back and miss targets or sit a Bobby on a street corner with a camera getting 50 spending tickets and 50 convictions in a day. Change the system and you’ll change the outcome
Yup, most speeding tickets & motoring offences are classed as "Solved cases" & boosts & looks good for the "solved crime rate" stat's! Easy job, sit safely in your car & for some grasshoppers - have some adrenalin speed chases for the T.V. in their 'Scoobies'. Just look what happenend in Harehills (Leeds) the other night, Grasshoppers literaly ran from the Muzzies then put a MILE wide STOP on emergency vehicles Police, fire & medics) rather than enforce the law. Sod anyone innocent who needed an ambulance or if those fires got out of control. Oh, - - - they did arrest one person later, a resident caucasian woman who slagged the grasshoppers off (hurty words) for not doing their job! (another easy target & crime solved)🤬
As always, great reporting from an amazing journalist. Isobel has done some fantastic stories with Vice. Glad to see her still out there fearless as always. 👏
Regarding Cambridge, Greater Anglia has a huge amount to answer for, so many thefts take place at the various stations and it's all down to their awful bike racks and non-functioning CCTV!
@@jacko2815 I haven't seen as many bikes as I did in Cambridge anywhere else in England. In fact I remember saying to my husband that the bike theft must be low because there were bikes everywhere. In my town if something isn't nailed down to the ground it will be gone in no time. I suppose they have a high bike theft because of the amount of bikes there is. I do wonder how comes bikes are so popuar in Cambridge actually, not that it's a bad thing.
There is more than police involved i believe. If the people they worked with on these kinda things found out they speaking on the crimes their folks would get them before the police
It shocking, I remember going to the UK years ago from Australia… I was walking with my partner as we past these two young girls they looked about 18 years old, and was with a older man..We went to lunch, after I went back to the shops on my own.. The same girls came up to me wanting a ride home.. I was hanging on to my bag, and I started to walk closer to the shops, where there was cameras.. Then I heard the older man saying to the girls No No come here. I looked up and saw the man calling the girls and they run towards the man.. I think the girls was getting ready to rob me… Thank goodness I kept walking towards the shops…
Happened to me too in London. A guy game in a bike and snatched the phone off my hand. Fortunately, it was a very old phone and he actually dropped it on the way. haha it pays off to own old phones ? The thing is, I moved to London from Germany that very day for work. I almost decided to move back because of this incident. Nowadays, I barely take my phone out when I am around central london.
Isobel Yeung is absolutely amazing. She has no fear. I have seen her on Vice News reporting about the Uighurs in China, the drug trade in South America among many other highly dangerous situations. Definately reporter of the decade. I hope she is being paid well.
The bigger problem is that judicial system is too lenient, that is why the police dont bother getting involved with most crimes. What is the point in police spending their time and effort to catch a thief when the judge will give them a suspended sentence. Just today i read of a diverse guy who was harassing women in bournemouth who then went on to assault an officer. The judge said that he didnt have to to do community service because he couldnt speak english. So just had to pay £2 a week in fines. Along with labour letting out thousands of criminals, judges handing ridiculously lenient sentences and the courts being told to hand out softer sentences to those with 'under-privileged' status, this country is becoming a scary place to live for the every day person. The whole system needs a punch in the face.
Nope. Biggest problem is people not getting caught. Another big problem is people blaming Labour for a problem that took the Conservatives over a decade to create. This country has become a scary place thanks to gullible people voting Conservative.
Fear of appearing ''racist'' has crippled our society. We're so weak now and let third worlders run amok with no consequence lest we appear ''racist''.
I got my moped stolen from me in manchester, used a wireless angle grinder to get through my chain. Police made me collect the CCTV (thought this was their job?!) and even then, over 2 years later nothing has come of it. Happened in broad daylight whilst I was in work.
Im from Bogota, Colombia and never tought England is facing the same issues we do.. off course not in the same level, but if you dont act now, it will grow like in our cities. Be careful
Yes, and it could start with stopping all the speeding e-bikes whizzing along pavements and shopping precincts. If petty criminality is tolerated, the perpetrators think they can get away with anything. It's a version of the the 'broken windows theory'.
Extraordinary, we were told that technology would make our lives safer and better. however, all we have is more crime, less crimes solved and more infringement on our personal rights.
This might sound obvious, but part of the issue here is that we all walk around with expensive gadgets these days. Obviously that doesn’t excuse them, but it does explain why it might be such quick and lucrative business for the chav without a conscience or anything to lose
You know that it wasn't just about phones ? You not walking with your home in your pocket or a car , so stupid way of thinking dude you shouldn't be afraid walking with anything in your hands you should feel safe , and in this country simply you can't. Being a thief you going to make better living than working and paying taxes piece of💩 system.
As an English native living in China, I know damn well these Chinese nationals, would dare go into any criminal activity back home! This tells you everything you need to know about police presence and strength in the UK.
Prisons are absolutely full, few go to prison and those that do serve a fraction of the sentence. There are very limited police, the work involved to get a simple crime to court is astonishing.. If police use force on criminals, the media come down on them and they lose their jobs. The CPS will only charge if it's almost certain they'll be convicted because of the court costs.. The entire system needs to be looked at
I think that high rents, food prices, dental crisis, low stagnant wages etc creates a perfect storm for criminality. The corruption in politics and the police the list goes on.
No room anymore in the jail! Full to capability,then early release, I was going to purchase a bike but what’s the point, nowhere to park it without it being stolen! 😓
It's such a BS excuse though. I've been homeless, I've had to go without. I know what destitution really is. Not once did I resort to crime, and the one time I was inadvertently dragged in to it, was my only time. I got the hell away from those nasty people the very next day.
when I was applying for uni, cambridge and oxford were the only places i saw bikes unlocked and left on the street as a norm. its a shame that these places cant do that anymore
She told the criminal 'you know I had my phone stolen recently' as if that was going to appeal to his humanity. What did she expect him to say, 'ah I'm sorry to hear that, here, have one of these' smh
Tip for people, dont stare at phone too long, be aware of surroundings, dont wear with high end brands. This applies on public transport. Any jewellery you wear, cover them up.
It's a shame that it's come to this, but I concur. Walk around staring at your phone, not paying any attention to what's happening around you is a recipe for becoming a victim. Don't be that target!
Awsome documentary! I live in a city in Asia and I had 10 bikes stolen before I learned how to protect them from theft. I love this investigation, I can relate to it so much.
Few years ago some junkies smashed the window to lots of cars in a parking lot at my workplace just to check if there was money in the glove compartment. Police dropped the case as they couldn't find the guys, or didn't bother.
Watching this really annoyed me. Plus, we can't defend ourselves. You can hear there is zero F given. So, why should we. When i descide to protect myself.
We did a data visualization project at Kings College for crime patterns in the UK. The number of unsolved crimes is astonishingly in hunderd thousands from 2021-2023.
To me the police get paid to harass, embarrass and keep a certain group of people in check! I'm almost certain that was there original assignment... They don't care nor seem to be required to act when we fall victim to these sorts of crime... My bike was recently stolen outside a busy tube station. I was told that the area was a hot stop once I asked if anyone had a camera or CCTV facing the spot where my bike was taken. A security guard told me that the police have walked pass while the criminals was taking a bike in the past. I didn't bother phonING the police after hearing that. Such a shame really
Somehow one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the highest crime rates managed to reduce the crime down in a short period of time. All they had to do was to change the government. El Salvador. It is possible. So I think it’s done on purpose so people vote for more surveillance - digital money and digital IDs. They have to create this situation to imprison us all.
@@tahnx47 El Salvador jailed 1% of their population. the UK has about 1% of criminals. And far more money per citizen. Plus if they UK sent away illegal immigrants and stop illegal immigration they would have even more money to in prison people.
I was born in East London and also raised there, I spent most of my days playing basketball in the playground, also chillin out and relaxin but then one day a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my living area. I ended up getting into a fight which terrified my mother. As a result she sent me away from East London to the most peaceful area of Bel Air.
I feel sorry for that young lad who was a victim of robbery but for the journalist to say the police discouraged him to do anything is wrong. The police just told the truth that if he goes to court then the suspect will find the identity of the victim, the police have no control over this
Law for thieves is very soft in UK. Underage children think they are above the law and can do anything and no one can touch them. Anti social behaviour is also a major problem and nothing is being done about it. All politicians say that they will do something about it but nothing seems to be happening.
the crime problem is wayyy worse than reported. who in their right mines thinks that if something of yours is stolen is going to be recovered, or even investigated by the police.
It may be terrible for the first world countries, but it works, in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, they cut off the fingers of thieves, in my opinion, the law of theft should be changed
What the hell is even the point of the police if they won't solve any crimes?
To be career liars that ruin peoples lives for facebook comments and no evidence arrests.
Whats the point in solving crimes if judges just let them go
@@KeithRingowhat's the point in judges sentencing them to time when there aren't any prison spaces
If you're bike had a homophobic slur on it then they would find it in 10 minutes
Whats the point in making more prison spaces if we have no money to maintain and fund the resources of people staying there @lumailisa
Don't blur their faces when you catch them in the act. They know what they are involved in and they deserve to have their faces shown.
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@@deekey33 It is not -.-
Amen
The law cares more about feelings than justice.
Maybe subject to legal process
My bike was stolenfrom uni campus. University refused to show footage until I got police. Contacted police they said I didn’t need their consent. I find the bike YEARS later in town. The owner tells me they bought from a pawn shop. Police tells me ‘yeah, these shops come and go very quickly’. I go to the bike shop I bought the bike from (literally 5 shops away from the pawn shop). They tell the police they’re unable to produce proof of sale?! Several days later, the pawn shop turns into a massage parlour. I have no faith in humanity. If your bike is stolen. Steal it back. Rig it with alarms and trackers because no one cares about you.
If you try to steal your bike back, you'll get arrested.
Perhaps it's safer just to use a dumb phone and cheap bike
@@DavidAntunes-rm7dq yes, the law will kick into action to serve injustice upon the innocent......while always facilitating evil
@@DavidAntunes-rm7dq did you watch the video? 😅
@@DavidAntunes-rm7dq Your own bike?
As someone who had a phone stolen in London, I thank to Channel 4 for turning the spotlight on the matter. Great documentary.
What value does a stolen phone have ?
@@kevinthompson2217 It's not too hard to hack into accounts with a stolen phone. They can gain far more than the value of the phone.
I had my phone stolen, tracked ot to an address and the police said there was nothing rhey could do! I damn near drove there myself to demand my phone back! Snatched off my lap (wheelchair user) as I'm getting off the bus! Bastards.
@@kevinthompson2217 are you seriously asking that q?
@@kevinthompson2217Did you really ask such a question?
the irony is if you fight back and the criminil ends up seriously hurt the victim can be taken to court and sentenced
Rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6.
And we vote (Indirectly for the politicians who hire these judges) for the people who work in this dysfunctional court system
@@AzogDefian *than
*criminal
The judicial 'system' is a business. They've got to preserve the source of income.
I got my house broken into while I was at work a few years ago. My pregnant partner was inside and identified the burglar. I confronted the burglar who came at me with a metal bar . I cant say too much apart from I defended myself 😉 the thief now walks with a permanent limp.
And then everybody clapped
Your a hero the world needs more people like....I applaud you sir ...if I could only have half the imagination you have I'd be a best selling author ♥️
r/thathappened
Nice one, its the only thing they understand, theyre not scared of the police thats for sure
you defended your self congrats on you for doing what is right and not worrying
How can the crime stop if the criminal doesn't get punished?
That's the point, the Govts know they are financially broke and are going to collapse so they are allowing criminals to get away without being punished as a means to punish the public and keep the public distracted from prosecuting Govt persons.
It can't. They wouldn't be able to steal, if they were missing their hands though
@@Magerquark exactly,
Even if you "stop the criminal" as you say. The actual crime will still go on because phone stealing is serving a bigger purpose. As there is far more people involved that are outside of the UK, who are applying the pressure for the thefts maybe. I can't tell, but stolen phones. Pop up in so many different parts of the world. This was just based on iPhones
Why would they stop when stupid news blurs their faces out so no one even knows to report if they see them
The documentary crew discovered the seller (probably the thief) pretty easily, and the fact that the police can't do it is just nuts.
Because the police don't even try.
The police work with the gangs obvs
Well, the police are in on it.
@@JurassicRod Lack of founding and resources unfortunately
That was the whole point of this documentary
That was a very good documentary! She managed to track a bike , meet a phone thief and another one that buys the phone on her own, and police is doing what?
Probably making sure no-one is flying the 🏴
No England game, no offensive flags (with the obvious exception of Plasticine, black flag of Islam etc these are ALWAYS ALLOWED 🙄)
@@KentPatriot Plasticine ? Like Wallace & Gromit ? Or Pingu ?
Or Morph. ?🤣
Police is doing nothing, they don't waste their time . if caught, a theft will be released next day without any penalty. Why should they make any afford?
The police doing what they told them to do , simply nothing 😂
The guy who buys a £1000 bike for £200 and doesn’t think it’s stolen, despite making up a BS back story. 100% complicit
100% its a complete organised crime, they have the people stealing aka the general chavs, the person who holds it and another person who sells it that lives in a semi nice area so people dont question it.
@@faequeenapril6921 100%, there is no way the dumbest of theives would be selling a nice bike like that for £200
@@BNHC0 do you haS StuP1d?
@@BNHC0 yes they do and the reason they steal is because they are dumb
Unbelievable given they show he has tons of other bikes listed in ebay. Come on.
I don’t understand, a journalist can find and talk to these people and the police can’t? 😮
The police have bigger fish to fry. People should take responsibility and stop buying £1000 phones. They should also not walk down the street and use their phones and pay no attention to surroundings. The police cant possibly concentrate on mobile phone theft. Be responsible!
@@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799why on earth shouldn’t you be able to have or wear what you want without fear of being robbed!
If there was a severe punishment for it then the crimes wouldn’t happen (at least not so much).
Look at the UAE! Theft is so low because of the punishment.
Siding with the absolute filth and scum that commit these crimes by saying people shouldn’t have or wear expensive things is crazy!
It’s akin to saying that a woman who wears sexually attractive clothing is asking to be assaulted.
Stop sticking up for the criminal!
VERY GOOG POINT!!!!!!!!!!
@@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799 And a thief has no time to know the price of a fone id doubt within secs .
They shall steal a phone where a person probs looks as if they arent paying attention to their surroundings i suspect.
Because police useless
Please do this every week. Please Please. The UK literally needs this reporting
Just call the police and tell them there’s a man with a camera filming, they’ll be there instantly
Tell them the man is black and they'll be there twice as fast, also, even when the perpetrator isnt black
That’s the one ☝🏼 there will be two cars and 4 pigs 🐷
Or say someone misgendered someone.
Woke
Or that someone called you whatever "no no" name 😂
I have a small group of friends in London , 4 out of 6 of us have experienced this over the years . Two phones snatched , one bike , one car stolen from home, all of these reported to police but zero help from them.
They're probably busy with hate speech crimes or some other equally important issues.
@@tenno1981Because the small hat people are pedestalized over everyone else.
As there is no police action, we need neighbourhood vigilantes to hand out punishment.
We need the 2nd amendment like America
@@peterwright5249crime in the US is worse, despite 2nd Amendment.
@@userxyz64 It depends what state you're in. Rate of violent crime in California per 100k. 420 in 2012 and 500 in 2022. NY 400 in 2012 vs. 430 in 2022. Florida went from 490 down to 250 in the same period. At least red states are willing to prosecute and it shows.
i would say push towards the law for them to take action. no one should take the law into there own hands unltill very nursery and is rear
@@burmy1552 blah blah nobody cares mate murica is worse for crime for any country in the anglosphere bar nobody across the country individual state stats are ultimately irrelevant, with only the UK, Sweden and France anywhere near as close to the US lets be real brotha
I used to live in England for 35 years and it's an absolute joke for crimes over there and bikes and phones stolen..I now live in Finland for the last 15 years and leave my bike outside our house every night and never been stolen. Feel very safe here on my phone without fear of some RAT stealing it
I bet you don't live in Paris 😛
@@geoffas Paris ? that rat infested garbage of a city is nothing to compare
But does it feel like it's coming? Like PerusSuomalaiset say... kyllä tiedät miksi.
RAT = Recently Arrived Traveller
@vernondjoe I've zero interest in true fins point of view and I really hope they don't get back into power here after all the trouble the party has brought to Finnish people
Guy steals bike, gets caught, confronted and gives bike back….proceeds to report bike stolen
So he can claim insurance on it.
@@Autonomous1969 they dont just pay out like that, and it was too quick
@@Autonomous1969 Not without documents to prove he bought it legally.
You get mugged, the police do diddly squat, you go and mug your mugger and police turn up on your doorstep. This is basically where we are.
reminds of the story that andrew tate said that made him claim never wear watches or drive nice cars in london, he bought the aston martin db11, went to a casino, as he got out some s**ts were in a van nearby with a laptop that traced the code of the key as he locked it and were able to unlock the car with a laptop, drove off, when he called the police they sent 2 little asian women in a vauxhall to the scene, when andrew called his mate to pick him up in the ferrari to go and hunt down his car, the 2 female officers started trying to arrest him and asked him to wait while a male officer came to the scene to arrest him, unbelievable, it felt like a story he made up to be funny, but after seeing these documentaries he wasnt lying
I love the way the reporter is walking around central London loosely clutching her iPad 😂
Might have something to do with the camera crew following her everywhere.
@@dougie1968 , still doesn’t send out the best signal to all the naive lemmings watching the programme though does it?
Her iPad is very old, it is not worth much at all. £80 tops
@@oo--771480!!
Sweet 4 and 4.
It was a bait-ipad. She would loved to have her ipad pinched for the documentary
I was hit by a big E scooter on the pavement in broad daylight. I broke my hand, and the person responsible fled the scene. I had witnesses, and I was admitted to the emergency room. Despite the incident occurring on High Street at 4 PM in the summer with many cameras around, the police refused to investigate. All I received was a letter from them saying they couldn't look into it.
Should have seen a Solicitor or wrote to the chief of police see what response u got ..
I've a Police Superintendent by the proverbials for rudeness. Involves a MP writing to him as well. So far no action on the crimes you are talking about.
However, I do have a complaint going in about Sir Mark Rowley tomorrow. He's the data controller for the met, so he takes the can for the failures to handle a subject Access request.
10 page complaint. List of the laws broken. List of the code of ethics breaches [and hence laws broken]. He can't be investigated by his own force, so its MOPAC.
Now MOPAC are interesting. They have disconnected their telephone number and won't allow anyone to their new office. That's generated a complaint. Now Khan is the PCC in charge of MOPAC. That complaint handling is quite prescriptive in law. There's Statutory Guidance on Police Complaints. For example monthly updates. The current backlog at MOPAC is 10 months.
So Khan is subject to the law on complaints. I'm pretty certain they will cock up, and the complaint will go in about him, which means he's under IOPC investigation. How's he going to get out of that?
It also happened to a neighbour. Hit from behind, e-motorbike on the pavement. In a wheelchair.
They looked at the camera and saw it wasn’t intentional. This is the Uk you can get less than 10 years for murder and if you died guess what. He still wouldn’t be charged as it can be proven to be an accident. If you were a rich on the other hand, that person would do years in jail but you’re not so
The wealthy live in a totally different world. They're treated like people.
So sad 😞
I grew up in London in the peak crime era of the 80s and 90s, and well, it's getting that bad again. I tell people never to get your phone out, stay in large groups, never look like you've got anything valuable, if you see anyone looking at you for more than a second than go somewhere else, etc. It's really lawless now, and you have to look out for yourself because you can't rely on the authorities. Went back last year to see family and friends, saw one lady crying because her purse got snatched, and I had to get it back. Got followed by muggers on public transport and had to confront them in front of group of people before they made their move. It's a shit show.
In 80's and 90's in East London in Newham I did not have any fear except from the NF. Its now that crime is rife especially robberies, stabbings/murder. Police stations shut down. Police are not doing what the taxpayer need, we need help, protection and if we don't get it then the people will take the law into their own hands.
left wing policies. Enjoy.
@@abdell75roussos Guardian espoused policies. Good for documentary material though
That's when the Conservatives were in power. We just had 14 years of them again and with all the cuts to public services history repeats.
The police talk a lot , but do nothing.
They’re understaffed and underfunded
@@rjws69 25 years ago 3 lads and a girl were wrecking my garden at ten at night, they were high. The cop said lock yourself in we will be there asap. 4.30pm the next day one arrived, he did not even take notes. Where (over 30 years ago) I worked for a time where, they used come in for coffee and chats to the women on and off all night( the women should have been working). The station was across the road, Were they underfunded then as well?
They do if you put hurty words online!
But if you do a mean tweet you are locked up
@@rjws69 Exactly I live near Saffron Walden and the local police station was closed and later turned into a block of flats. Not to mention the fact that I only ever see 1 bobby patrolling the town whilst they're having to use the council offices as their headquarters.
I had my phone stolen in work (a shop) We gave the police his name, address, and video of the theft. We knew who he was.. Nothing was done. Got a phone call from the police a year or so after the event saying the case has been dropped.
Police can only CREATE problems, but are completely unable to solve problems.
had an identical situation with a video as follow up, result was 0
You've got his name, address and know what he looks like,why involve the old bill when you know they'll do absolutely nothing.Sort it yourself,go about it the right way and you're guaranteed a result with no comeback.
They're only after things that can make them a few quid quickly without appeal.
Prime example of why I’m taking my family out of the cesspool that this country has become. The lack of policing is just insane. The only crime I’ve ever reported that led to an arrest was a racial slur against me. My feelings clearly matter more than my life.
What country have you chosen to move to?
This reality is thanks politicians people voted for :)
Here is the point.
I moved to NZ in 2016. At first I still carried that paranoid suspisious mindset, nowadays I don't lock my front door, I can leave my garage open and not be paranoid about having stuff taken. My kids walk to school. Kids all ride nice moutain bikes but don't lock them up outside the shops.
Sorry to say things aint going to get better for you in light of the behavior of the Tommy Robinson thug race riots all over England, and Belfast.
@@hudsonquaySame deal for me over here in Ontario Canada.
if the police are not going to do anything then people who get robbed should tool up and fight back
Ya can just don't get caught. Legal system is a waste of time and resources. If you feel like you can solve your problems morally and are confident I'd say do it and deal with the consequences. Shit happens and rolls downhill, as long as you avoid the most of the shit you can you should be good.
Ok Rambo.
Didn't notice that the majority of victims are female or feminine / weak men, the usual people who get offended if you either misgender them or don't use their pronouns.
Oh you bet the police and courts will do something about it then. Criminals are seen as victims, and victims are seen as criminals.
You will be persecuted and jail
Yet you can get incarcerated for upsetting some rapist dressed in women's clothes?!
Guy claiming that he "doesn't give a fuck" and isn't afraid of the police while hiding his identity 😅
Bet he is just an actor, typical channel 4 fake reporting😡
No gloves I noticed 🤔
@@bobk8465 if you say so...
Its a sad way to make a living, and I consider this guy just a sad person really. Making a living from stealing peoples phones ffs. Has he ever had a PROPER job. He probably still lives with his mother. The young should stop seeing guys like this as being cool. Their just pretty pathetic people.
@@rickrivethead What do you mean by still lives with his mother?
I remember the days growing up, when I simply leant my bike up against a fence and went into a shop. Our bikes were in open bike sheds all day long at school next to the road and never was there one missing. We didn’t have locks on our bikes because we didn’t need them
After watching this it just makes me mad, I was one of these victims. All this is doing is making us realize that this will never stop
Freedom is dead!
How about changing the government? You've only had conservatives in government for 14 years. Do you think the theft of cell phones and bicycles was as high before that? You vote for populists and are mad that nothing changes.
The phone snatcher was so heartless man, just ice cold.
deport
But all the blame is put on immigrants
@@The-Cat yes 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@The-Cat how can you tell with the face covered and someone else's fake voice ? he could be from here or anywhere in the world .
@@uptowndisco2 I'm saying people put all the blame on immigrants
That buss driver nearly had 10 points to win 😂
This is a real eye opener for me, I'm an Aussie living in Thailand the people in my neighbourhood aren't well off many of them rely on a small motorcycle to transport their families. I often leave my motorbike outside a shop with the key in and my shopping in a bag ,when I go to local bars and restaurants restaurants i leave my phone on the table when I go to the toilet and my mail order packages are left on an outside table if I'm not at home, all these things could easily be stolen but in the last 9 years it's never happened, says a lot about British society vs Thailand
Agree mate, I am here in Samui. Even if you leave your card in the ATM someone hands it in at 7/11. I don't lock my doors and theft is very rare.
I left UK 23 years ago, I could see it coming back then.
Actually, it says a lot about British punishment system vs Thai. You don't wanna spend years in a Thai prison, but many British felons live better in a British prison than outside.
The penalties for simple theft in Thailand is up to 3 years. For robbery it could be up to 10 years. Thai society places a high value on community and familial relationships, which can act as a deterrent to theft. With a significant portion of the economy relying on tourism, there is a vested interest in maintaining a safe environment for visitors. This includes efforts by both the government and local communities to minimize theft.
They can easily be stolen by tourists really stupid to do.
@@basillah7650 no tourists in my neck of the woods
Similar to the kid at 34:00, I was attacked at 14 by a group known to the police and advised not to press charges for the same reasons.
Still have the scar on my face 16 years later.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine,he can't see out of one eye because of It,as the knife scratched his eye when they cut his face,never caught em too.
The police is for the rich not for subhuman shit like us, regular people
They cant catch them, but they can interview them xD
Isn't it mad how a lady with a camera can find these people but the 1000s of feds can't?? Man jokes of a system
Feds? This isn't the USA
@@stephenholmes1036 all the same corrupt s**t tho
@@stephenholmes1036 You people that get triggered over slang are something else.
Cringe slang.
@@Zoro3-3yes sensitive people more concerned about hurty words on the internet than actually solving the problems we face
Does anybody else think we are paying more but getting less
We will own nothing and be happy I guess
Everyone
Welcome to the new anti-Labour Gov..
We're importing more, and getting more.
We are being milked like cattle ! And getting **** all back in return .
I had a cultural shock as being from Baku on my first week in London. My phone was snatched from my hand by someone who was on the bike and with hoodie in front of my uni on the second day at the uni. I called the police, but after they arrived I could not describe his face to the police. Since It just happened in front of my uni, I asked the police to check the CCTV to see the thief instead of asking me how he looked like, but the police refused to do it by saying that police didn't have permission for that. I told them I can ask the security guy, I am a student here but they still were not interested. I was very surprised by this inaction of the police. Since Baku is the safest city in Europe, one can walk with the phone on the streets at night alone as a girl without any concerns, as nobody will touch to you, because they are afraid of the Azerbaijani police very much and think that one phone, a wallet or one rape doesn't worse their long years in prison...There are CCTV everywhere in Baku just like in London. They can find the thieves in a couple of hours in Baku. If this British journalist could find the thieves easily, why the police cannot find them while having all the administrative resources?
Because the police don't care..
Soft law UK
That's it. I'm moving to Baku 🥳😂
@@KentPatriot Baku isn't even in Europe, don't believe a word they say. Azerbaijan is quite a lawless country and the border regions are a no go zone for tourists, single women. There is criminality and corruption everywhere in that country, plus it's islamic and has sharia courts.
How can you compare a city of 2mio. inhabitants with London‘s 9 mio.? That‘s ridiculous.
"Help, officer! That man sent me a mean tweet!" Straight there....
The problem lays in the fact citizens cant fight back out of fear of being prosecuted themselves
@@-I-S-H-Mate if you witness someone attempting to steal your bike and hit them over the head with whilst they approach you, you’re getting sentenced
@@jamaicaboy544courts are backed up so you should be fine
@@-I-S-H-BULL💩
That’s not the problem, it’s by design.
Tell them your’e feeling offended and they’ll go after the person you’ve accused ! Ridiculous
I had a bike stolen with an Apple AirTag attached so the bike could be narrowed down to a handful of apartments. The police didn’t even bother to look. The statement about investigating crimes which have a chance of being solved is clearly untrue!
I’ve had my bike stolen too it makes my blood boil when someone just takes something you worked to hard to purchase I saved up money to finally get a trek fx3.😢
i think they target this bike unfortunatley as mine was stolen aswell... £900 down the drain
My sister lives in a bad area in Leeds, and her neighbours had stuff in their garden shed stolen and their house broken into. They called the police and their response was "Maybe you should move somewhere else".
Not even joking, useless. Criminals don't "feel" untouchable, they are.
All our authorities think we should move somewhere else while we're replaced with these types who commit these crimes.
Yip, standard response now. UK's a s-show in a wind tunnel
In the 80's they'd advise which pub to go to to buy your stuff back (burnt down now) ...seriously ..LS6 was a a hole .
Just goes to prove that they hire sadistic sociopaths as cops as well.
You go to prison for social media infringements,but can be greenlighted on violent street crime
My EBike got stolen from my hospital workplace security access bike garage, the security team had the CCTV recorded and made a cd waiting in the hospital security office, for them to pick up, the police spent 3 months just to tell me they don't have a direct phone number for the security office, there is no direct number, you call switchboard and are directed. They never went to pick up the CCTV cd, or ever investigated it
I would have taken the CD to them or emailed it to them too
@@voice.of.reason true, but they only allowed the police to pick it up, I was not allowed
Sorry this happened to you. You are not alone. I’ve heard so many stories like yours, where police ignores CCTV or any other evidence for that matter.
Your e-bike is probably at a second hand bike shop in shenzhen
I don't trust police either, they are good for nothing!
We need more vigilantes if the police aren’t going to do their work! I’m pleased to see people making a difference & taking action & getting their goods back!
The crime in this country is getting ridiculous. We've got to take a stand.
Vote reform , too many people in our little island
Drugs
take a stand - how?
@@itsoccamsrazorat side point you have to stop the simple mindedness of blaming everything on immigration. Literally most criminals in this video were white and most victims from another ethnic background. Open your eyes.
@@London_Lad_E11
You trust bbc & this govt channel.
LDN clue less boi
You should have an interview regarding this with mayor London and the police.
The mayor could not care less unfortunately 👎🤬
Trying to get an honest reply out of Mr khant. . Impossible.
Sadiq Khan more interested in keeping Palestine flags up than sorting out crime in London.
The mayor is more like to focus on introducing a farting tax. The ulez idiot.
I'm so glad that the police recognise the impact that crime has on people. It gives me such a warm feeling.
All the money goes into speed cameras and bus gates 😂
easy to make money from those "crimes"
More profitable
@@MarkJefferiesAirDisplays If you don't speed no fines simple. Ask people who have lost loved ones to idiots speeding and think again.
@@user-gc8pc3ol6l sure when I'm going 23 in a 20 zone
they want to make cars unusable
Yup, it's all about making more money. They don't care about protecting us. Just generating more revenue.
Who would have thought 14 years of Tory governments absolutely gutting Police budgets would lead to this?
Neighborhood policing teams? gutted. PSCO numbers? gutted. Getting a police response for reporting things like a burglary? gone. SOCO attending a scene of burglary to recover fingerprints/DNA left by offenders? gone. Now you talk to a civilian call taker who logs the report, but that is it.
Thanks David, Theresa, Boris, Liz and Rishi!
Spot on.
That civilian call taker won't even be in the same town.
not to mention uncontrolled migration.
A large part of it is the ''targets'' nonsense Labour started. Police and many industries focus on meeting ''targets'' as quick and easily as possible rather than doing what needs to be done on a day to day basis tot he best of their ability. Car thefts, shop lifting, burglary, illegal immigrants etc are all difficult to investigate and take time and effort. So police ignore them and target petty non crimes which are easy to deal with and meet their targets for the week. Doesn't help that we no longer live in a high trust society due to being swarmed with people from low trust cultures.
Virtually every single one of the criminals is wearing Air Max... particularly Air Max 95s.
White people
27:26
"That's a them problem"
He's a danger to society, lock him up, permanently
⚪️🗑
Fella needs his face rearranged.
nah he was a wrong'un - he needs to get arrested immediately 😅
Yep. That's how long I had to thunk about that....
He is one of many just like him.
The rules set mean they can’t go after these crimes. They have targets to meet. Spend a week tracking a phone you might not get back and miss targets or sit a Bobby on a street corner with a camera getting 50 spending tickets and 50 convictions in a day. Change the system and you’ll change the outcome
Yup, most speeding tickets & motoring offences are classed as "Solved cases" & boosts & looks good for the "solved crime rate" stat's! Easy job, sit safely in your car & for some grasshoppers - have some adrenalin speed chases for the T.V. in their 'Scoobies'.
Just look what happenend in Harehills (Leeds) the other night, Grasshoppers literaly ran from the Muzzies then put a MILE wide STOP on emergency vehicles Police, fire & medics) rather than enforce the law. Sod anyone innocent who needed an ambulance or if those fires got out of control. Oh, - - - they did arrest one person later, a resident caucasian woman who slagged the grasshoppers off (hurty words) for not doing their job! (another easy target & crime solved)🤬
As always, great reporting from an amazing journalist. Isobel has done some fantastic stories with Vice. Glad to see her still out there fearless as always. 👏
Regarding Cambridge, Greater Anglia has a huge amount to answer for, so many thefts take place at the various stations and it's all down to their awful bike racks and non-functioning CCTV!
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Cambridge is some posh area I worked there. Nothing hardly bad happening around there compared to other place
Micro budget street policing
@@jacko2815 I haven't seen as many bikes as I did in Cambridge anywhere else in England. In fact I remember saying to my husband that the bike theft must be low because there were bikes everywhere. In my town if something isn't nailed down to the ground it will be gone in no time. I suppose they have a high bike theft because of the amount of bikes there is. I do wonder how comes bikes are so popuar in Cambridge actually, not that it's a bad thing.
They’re not scared of police but hide their faces 😂😂
Because they’re scared of their mummy and daddy. If they have any…
There is more than police involved i believe. If the people they worked with on these kinda things found out they speaking on the crimes their folks would get them before the police
It's not the police they have to worry about... the crims know the cops won't do a thing if they get beaten to a pulp.
@@zYxMathere mums and dads dont care wat there kids do to anyone else as they did it back in the day fkn reprobates.
Errr two different things I'm guessing?
It shocking, I remember going to the UK years ago from Australia… I was walking with my partner as we past these two young girls they looked about 18 years old, and was with a older man..We went to lunch, after I went back to the shops on my own.. The same girls came up to me wanting a ride home.. I was hanging on to my bag, and I started to walk closer to the shops, where there was cameras.. Then I heard the older man saying to the girls No No come here. I looked up and saw the man calling the girls and they run towards the man.. I think the girls was getting ready to rob me… Thank goodness I kept walking towards the shops…
Makes my blood boil having had my road bike stolen and the police didn't want to do anything...
In London should I add.
UK is like Gotham City before the Batman 😂
😅😂
You got a crime number right? That's the Police involvement right there. Check your council tax bill. You pay premium for that crime number.
I just carry a dumb phone, no one wants to nick a twenty quid phone.
Exactly😅😊or do not carry a phone.problem solved.
Dumb phone = Trap phone these days looks bait either eay
This has been known for sometime. London and not a few other major UK cities have been proper seedy for a long time
Truth 😂😂😂i will NEVER get an expensive phone
Me neither wink wink
Happened to me too in London. A guy game in a bike and snatched the phone off my hand. Fortunately, it was a very old phone and he actually dropped it on the way. haha it pays off to own old phones ?
The thing is, I moved to London from Germany that very day for work. I almost decided to move back because of this incident. Nowadays, I barely take my phone out when I am around central london.
I had the same case. But I had a relatively new cheap Android phone.
Reporter “ I had my phone stolen recently” robber “I might of done it” 😂 COLDDDD!
All this CCTV and our council use it to fine cyclist cutting through pedestrian areas.
😅serious offences,indeed.😅
Yep
They start with pedestrian areas, next it's running red lights and generally being complete twats.
Isobel Yeung is absolutely amazing. She has no fear. I have seen her on Vice News reporting about the Uighurs in China, the drug trade in South America among many other highly dangerous situations. Definately reporter of the decade. I hope she is being paid well.
She went into the tunnels in Gaza during the last Gaza war, insane bravery
She sure is a REAL reporter, an truly admirable woman.
A journalist can turn up at source, but the police can't?
Are the police complicit?
Just like our governments... They tax us for non existent services...
The bigger problem is that judicial system is too lenient, that is why the police dont bother getting involved with most crimes. What is the point in police spending their time and effort to catch a thief when the judge will give them a suspended sentence. Just today i read of a diverse guy who was harassing women in bournemouth who then went on to assault an officer. The judge said that he didnt have to to do community service because he couldnt speak english. So just had to pay £2 a week in fines. Along with labour letting out thousands of criminals, judges handing ridiculously lenient sentences and the courts being told to hand out softer sentences to those with 'under-privileged' status, this country is becoming a scary place to live for the every day person. The whole system needs a punch in the face.
Christ, Labour been in a minute and you already wrapping this on them??? Whoa!
👊🤛
early release ramped up the day they got in tho
Nope. Biggest problem is people not getting caught.
Another big problem is people blaming Labour for a problem that took the Conservatives over a decade to create.
This country has become a scary place thanks to gullible people voting Conservative.
Fear of appearing ''racist'' has crippled our society. We're so weak now and let third worlders run amok with no consequence lest we appear ''racist''.
Whats the point in having trackers in our phones, if no one goes after them
Its called marketing.
It's so you can be tracked. Not for when it's stolen.
@@Noname-oo9gnbingo😅
I got my moped stolen from me in manchester, used a wireless angle grinder to get through my chain. Police made me collect the CCTV (thought this was their job?!) and even then, over 2 years later nothing has come of it. Happened in broad daylight whilst I was in work.
Im from Bogota, Colombia and never tought England is facing the same issues we do.. off course not in the same level, but if you dont act now, it will grow like in our cities. Be careful
Yes, and it could start with stopping all the speeding e-bikes whizzing along pavements and shopping precincts. If petty criminality is tolerated, the perpetrators think they can get away with anything. It's a version of the the 'broken windows theory'.
Extraordinary, we were told that technology would make our lives safer and better. however, all we have is more crime, less crimes solved and more infringement on our personal rights.
This might sound obvious, but part of the issue here is that we all walk around with expensive gadgets these days. Obviously that doesn’t excuse them, but it does explain why it might be such quick and lucrative business for the chav without a conscience or anything to lose
You know that it wasn't just about phones ? You not walking with your home in your pocket or a car , so stupid way of thinking dude you shouldn't be afraid walking with anything in your hands you should feel safe , and in this country simply you can't.
Being a thief you going to make better living than working and paying taxes piece of💩 system.
Air tags are so cheap, stick them on your saddle, on the frame, in the reflectors.
And insure the bike for 10k. I'm not kidding.
'UK used to stand for United Kingdom, now it stands for Unbelievable Krimewave.' Thank you BrassEye
people getting their phone stolen this much is embarrasing because its so easy to prevent it
Doing this documentary while she's pregnant 🤰, hella brave❤
Is that your bike? Take a wild guess the angle grinder might be a clue😂
As an English native living in China, I know damn well these Chinese nationals, would dare go into any criminal activity back home! This tells you everything you need to know about police presence and strength in the UK.
Prisons are absolutely full, few go to prison and those that do serve a fraction of the sentence. There are very limited police, the work involved to get a simple crime to court is astonishing.. If police use force on criminals, the media come down on them and they lose their jobs. The CPS will only charge if it's almost certain they'll be convicted because of the court costs.. The entire system needs to be looked at
I think that high rents, food prices, dental crisis, low stagnant wages etc creates a perfect storm for criminality. The corruption in politics and the police the list goes on.
No room anymore in the jail! Full to capability,then early release, I was going to purchase a bike but what’s the point, nowhere to park it without it being stolen! 😓
It's such a BS excuse though. I've been homeless, I've had to go without. I know what destitution really is. Not once did I resort to crime, and the one time I was inadvertently dragged in to it, was my only time. I got the hell away from those nasty people the very next day.
@@EgoChip Fair enough, I can appreciate your point of view.
And mass immigration, too many people and not enough resources
Wow - agreed. Ever thought of putting yourself forward for Office - I'd vote for ya! 🙂
Look man, I get they can't investigate EVERY stolen phone but c'mon a 0% solve rate is ridiculous
when I was applying for uni, cambridge and oxford were the only places i saw bikes unlocked and left on the street as a norm. its a shame that these places cant do that anymore
She told the criminal 'you know I had my phone stolen recently' as if that was going to appeal to his humanity. What did she expect him to say, 'ah I'm sorry to hear that, here, have one of these' smh
It's the same in Scotland too... my bike was robbed my bike, I did go to police but no update yet after 4 yrs....
Didn't expect this in UK...
Tip for people, dont stare at phone too long, be aware of surroundings, dont wear with high end brands. This applies on public transport. Any jewellery you wear, cover them up.
Drugs is the reason
What's the point of jewelery as a fashion accessory if people can't see it. You can't live your life terrified
@@michaelfurlonger5958I guess it depends where you are
@@michaelfurlonger5958 just don't be so vain is the solution. Narcissism won't get you anywhere!!!
It's a shame that it's come to this, but I concur. Walk around staring at your phone, not paying any attention to what's happening around you is a recipe for becoming a victim. Don't be that target!
Awsome documentary! I live in a city in Asia and I had 10 bikes stolen before I learned how to protect them from theft. I love this investigation, I can relate to it so much.
Even back in 1997, thieves smashed my car door window and stole the cassette radio…
Nothing has changed since…
Except the thieves no longer bother stealing radio/cassette players from cars 😛
Few years ago some junkies smashed the window to lots of cars in a parking lot at my workplace just to check if there was money in the glove compartment.
Police dropped the case as they couldn't find the guys, or didn't bother.
No point doing that these days - audio systems are coded to each vehicle, won't work in another.
Gor blimey govner, it aint even changed since victorian times, they even carrying swords again
They smashed my window for half a packet cigarette in the West End
Watching this really annoyed me. Plus, we can't defend ourselves. You can hear there is zero F given. So, why should we. When i descide to protect myself.
@@landrover4483you can’t use a prepared weapon. If you happen to find one in the moment, you can use that.
@@KazeHorse our laws are dumb in my opinion
The police don't do anything 90% of the time anyway. Take you're chances
We did a data visualization project at Kings College for crime patterns in the UK. The number of unsolved crimes is astonishingly in hunderd thousands from 2021-2023.
Dispatches is THE BEST. SUPERB JOURNALISM.
You've obviously never seen any 'superb journalism'.
I Was a victim of crime two years ago. My mobility scooter was stolen outside the shop I used to work in. The police were not very helpful
To me the police get paid to harass, embarrass and keep a certain group of people in check! I'm almost certain that was there original assignment... They don't care nor seem to be required to act when we fall victim to these sorts of crime...
My bike was recently stolen outside a busy tube station. I was told that the area was a hot stop once I asked if anyone had a camera or CCTV facing the spot where my bike was taken.
A security guard told me that the police have walked pass while the criminals was taking a bike in the past. I didn't bother phonING the police after hearing that. Such a shame really
Guy makes £1000 a day robbing phones and dresses like that😂.
It's called 'blending in'. I do it all the time, not because I'm a criminal, simply to avoid looking like I have anything worth stealing ;-)
You’d make a great criminal! 😅
Can't buy style or class.
Somehow one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the highest crime rates managed to reduce the crime down in a short period of time. All they had to do was to change the government. El Salvador. It is possible. So I think it’s done on purpose so people vote for more surveillance - digital money and digital IDs. They have to create this situation to imprison us all.
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You are comparing El Salvador with a population of a meager 6 million, to the UK with a population of over 65 million.
@@tahnx47are you stupid? Most of the crimes are in big cities, mostly London. There’s 8 million in London. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@tahnx47 El Salvador jailed 1% of their population. the UK has about 1% of criminals. And far more money per citizen. Plus if they UK sent away illegal immigrants and stop illegal immigration they would have even more money to in prison people.
@@tahnx47 and a fun fact: the tiny El Salvador with much less money has more prisoners than the UK!
I was born in East London and also raised there, I spent most of my days playing basketball in the playground, also chillin out and relaxin but then one day a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my living area. I ended up getting into a fight which terrified my mother. As a result she sent me away from East London to the most peaceful area of Bel Air.
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I feel sorry for that young lad who was a victim of robbery but for the journalist to say the police discouraged him to do anything is wrong. The police just told the truth that if he goes to court then the suspect will find the identity of the victim, the police have no control over this
Law for thieves is very soft in UK. Underage children think they are above the law and can do anything and no one can touch them. Anti social behaviour is also a major problem and nothing is being done about it. All politicians say that they will do something about it but nothing seems to be happening.
28:15 .... You can really tell the sincerity in his vocal tone(!)
the crime problem is wayyy worse than reported. who in their right mines thinks that if something of yours
is stolen is going to be recovered, or even investigated by the police.
police like to go for speeding and parking because its easy money and ticks a quota box.
It may be terrible for the first world countries, but it works, in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, they cut off the fingers of thieves, in my opinion, the law of theft should be changed
They also (or at least UAE and Gulf countries) ship their criminals to Europe so they don't have to burden the cost of keeping them in prison.
10 strikes and your out!