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Brixton chitter-chatter & news Jan 2012

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there were 18 coppers (I counted - but some may have been transport people) at my bus stop and the one opposite when I got off the bus this afternoon at about 4pm - the stops are the 2 that serve the Tulse Hill estate on either sides of the road. There were also transport people checking our tickets/Oyster cards. as soon as it looked like someone was moving off without showing his/her ticket, a circle of police would close in around them. It was a bit mental and quite intimidating tbh... it's such a busy stop and it was really confusing as we got off with this huge crowd of police closing in on us. Is it really necessary to have that many of them?
 
there seem to be cops round tulse hill all the time for the past few months and all they seem to do is hassle pedestrians and motorists.
 
Orang Utan said:
there seem to be cops round tulse hill all the time for the past few months and all they seem to do is hassle pedestrians and motorists.
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I hadn't seen them before (this is at the bottom of Tulse Hill, by the park entrance/Effra Road end - not up at the top by the train station) but probably just missed them I guess, but this was incredible..... so many of them, for bus tickets? :confused:
 
I don't know but I was told car tax and insurance checks. If so, it's part of a London-wide strategy over a few months.
 
this was definitely bus tickets, they weren't stopping any car drivers. Literally as the door of the bus opened we were sort of kettled until we'd all shown our tickets. There was a group doing the same on the other side of the road. At 4pm it was mostly school kids (with free bus travel) and people like myself with young kids coming back from the market etc.
 
ah right, i meant by the train station. they seem to be searching any young man that goes by on a regular basis and they've been stopping cars and motorbikes too.
they seem to be favouring the swamping approach with the bus inspections. i don't get it. it just antagonises everyone and causes delays.

btw a couple of political tweeters mentioned that the cops are implementing a youth curfew for six months in Brixton. Anyone know anything about it? Section 30 was mentioned. Couldn't see anything when I googled news sites.
 
I was told by a copper last year that there is always some kind of dispersal zone going on in Brixton. They tend to move it this way and that way, only able to police a limited patch at a time.

So kids on Acre Lane may have been left alone a year ago, but this year they'll get the cops swooping down on them. Doesn't take them long to learn and adapt, and just move along and do their do a couple of hundred yards up the street or round the corner

Keeps the local shopfronts and residents thinking things are better for a while. It's customer care, not policing the community.

That's what the copper told me.
 
there's blue lights roadblocks and diversions all round the centre. Someone told me it was something to do with the UK Borders Agency?? but the diversion at the end of Atlantic Rd seems more to do with work on the bridge.
 
fortyplus said:
there's blue lights roadblocks and diversions all round the centre. Someone told me it was something to do with the UK Borders Agency?? but the diversion at the end of Atlantic Rd seems more to do with work on the bridge.
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yes.. this has caused us another headache today... we've travelled around Brixton a fair bit today and kept running up against these roadblocks etc...

the last headache has been having to walk almost exclusively down the street with a stroppy toddler as all the pavements are taken up with dead Christmas trees... :D
 
fortyplus said:
there's blue lights roadblocks and diversions all round the centre. Someone told me it was something to do with the UK Borders Agency?? but the diversion at the end of Atlantic Rd seems more to do with work on the bridge.
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Added to which, there's a lane closed at the Town Hall junction: the Gas board seems to be doing something there. Traffic backed up along Acre Lane.
 
fortyplus said:
there's blue lights roadblocks and diversions all round the centre. Someone told me it was something to do with the UK Borders Agency?? but the diversion at the end of Atlantic Rd seems more to do with work on the bridge.
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Definitely bridge work, unless the UK Borders agency are using cherry pickers to search for people clinging to the 'BE OUR GUEST' panels.
 
Yes to power cut - just off New Park Road, everything including streetlights went off for about 3 minutes. It dimmed significantly in the house before finally going off completely.

Streetlights on NPR remained on though the shops seemed to be in darkness.
 
Selfridges window display has a reference to Brixton on it - is it a pisstake or a sincere attempt to endow Selfridges with some edgy vibez?

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ajdown said:
Yes to power cut - just off New Park Road, everything including streetlights went off for about 3 minutes. It dimmed significantly in the house before finally going off completely.

Streetlights on NPR remained on though the shops seemed to be in darkness.
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Emergency lighting in communal hallways all went out as well. Pitch black. Not even enough light for me to go and dig torch out :D
 
We used the light from my mobile to find the gas lighter so we could light some of our candles. It was bizarrely dark out there particularly with the streetlights out and nothing but the sound of a few complaining alarms.
 
ajdown said:
We used the light from my mobile to find the gas lighter so we could light some of our candles. It was bizarrely dark out there particularly with the streetlights out and nothing but the sound of a few complaining alarms.
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guy from downstairs opened his front door same time as me. In a panic as he was just pouring paint into a bucket when the lighs went off and worried he's got paint everywhere :D
 
I don't know if everything in between went?... gaijinboy poked his head out and the buildings on the other side of the street (ie in your direction) were ok.
 
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