"Tactical contact" in London to stop moped thieves...

[TreasonousBastard]

Police in London are using their patrol cars to bump fleeing suspected moped robbers. It’s nothing fancy, though they’ve given it a fancy name: “tactical contact.” The Met says tactical contact is only executed by highly trained officers in order to end chases quickly.

Moped-based thefts have plagued London in recent years. Robbers speed by and snatch the mobile devices and bags out of unsuspecting pedestrians’ hands. Police say strategies like tactical contact have helped reduce so-called “ride-by thefts” from 19,455 robberies in 2017 to 12,419 this year. The New York Times however found that the tactical contact was only deployed 63 times this year. Other tactics, such as tracking suspects using helicopters, have proved much more effective.

More at:

https://jalopnik.com/london-police-are-using-tactical-contact-to-stop-suspec-1830892268

[3Hotdogs]

1. So theft of cell phones may now be a capital offense?

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I get it. It must be "The Onion."

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Cressida Dick was in charge of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes for just looking like

her "highly trained" armed team's idea of a terrorist. Now she leads the whole Met. What could possibly go wrong with her deploying potentially lethal force against moped riders? I mean, riding a moped is about as suspicious as walking out of your flat and onto the Tube.