Community Policing - Medieval Style

Now, I'm not one to advocate vigilantism or the creation of any citizen retribution against criminals - I'd even go so far as to defend the right of sex offenders to retain their privacy so long as they have served their sentence and are not judged to be a threat (after all, how else are they meant to rehabilitate?)

But when Anti-Social Behaviour Orders are clearly failing to deal with community problems, and under-resourced police forces cannot bring criminals to justice, I can sympathise with this return to old-fashioned methods to deal with criminals in the community. Assuming that he is in fact a drugs dealer (and that's a big if), then I'll bet this deals with the problem far more effectively than any ASBO ever could.

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