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Inevitable really. The police have also been confiscating the hunter devices as well, because the videos and any inbound messages from the suspect to the decoy are also evidence.
ReplyDeleteNext step is to visit the decoys at home and confiscate their kit too. I rather suspect hunter activity will fall over a cliff once the police start doing that, which I fervently hope they will.
You can see more recent videos where it's clear the police are tightening their grip and taking a harder line with these groups. I saw a very recent GOTN sting in Newcastle where the video stops abruptly because a police officer ordered them to turn the phone off. There was another sting in Nottingham where 10-15 police officers turned up and threatened arrest for breach of the peace if the hunters didn't clear the area immediately.
My belief is that the police are now going to start using public order offences and raising the evidence thresholds as a handy means to beat the hunter groups down until they give up and fade away. These powers already exist and are now being used a lot more often, much easier than trying to legislate a full ban.
Dear Anonymous,
DeleteIndeed, and that is without, any changes in statute, required.
Meetings will be being held, towards 'guidelines'.
Without the public gaze, they will wither (as they already are).
TY
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Oh yeah, there was that other sting in London where someone was accosted in McDonald's after he tried to meet a 14 year old boy for sex.
ReplyDeleteThe judge gave him a reduced and suspended prison sentence because she saw the footage and decided the hunter group's behaviour was unacceptable and that level of public humiliation was punishment enough. Needless to say, the hunters frothed about improper and lenient sentencing with nay a nugget of legal knowledge whatsoever.
Such fun.
Dear Anonny-Mouse
DeleteThey are increasing, in number.
We call this, 'Sentence Normalisation'; this being, when any offence, is learned, although to be within illegality, to be common, trivial and low-risk, by the courts, cf softer drugs etc.
TY
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