Police Swooped On Yaxham Village In Norfolk, England, After Reports Of “gunshots And The Sound Of Children Screaming” — To Find It A Party Of Small Children Playing With Nerf Guns.
Eight-year-old Oliver Green was celebrating his birthday with friends when officers arrived at the address and told his mother they had been called “following reports of machine guns going off in my garden”, according to MailOnline.
“I told them that there were some guns, but they are only Nerf guns… One officer said to the children ‘who is the birthday boy?’ and my son very cautiously stepped forward and said ‘I am the birthday boy officer, but I am not sure what I have done wrong’.”
The incident follows just weeks after law enforcement dashed to another supposed gun crime incident in the quiet village, which turned out to be a Second World War re-enactment.
Oliver’s mother, Lisa, said the officers “were brilliant with the kids” once the situation became clear, and “the kids loved it”. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Police In Norfolk, England, Have Dropped Hundreds Of Burglary Investigations After A Computer Algorithm Recommended They Were Not Worth Pursuing, According To Reports.
Burglaries in the United Kingdom — which are much more likely to take place while the residents are at home than in the U.S., as Britons may not keep arms for home defence — have surged in recent years, with fewer and fewer resulting in any meaningful police action as resources shrink and focus shifts to new priorities such as ‘hate incidents’.
Now the burglary ‘detection’ rate — which is already a mere 3 percent, having halved from an already low 6 percent since 2013 — looks set to decline even further with police in Norfolk trialling a computer algorithm which recommends whether or not a break-in is worth investigating.
According to the Mail on Sunday, police are “simply closing cases after the machine calculates the chances of making an arrest and recovering treasured stolen goods” without doing any detailed detective work, without victims being told what has happened.
“The fact that a police force would even consider this approach to investigating serious crimes such as burglary is a gross insult to the victims,” commented a spokesman for the UK Independence Party (UKIP). “The duty of the police is to serve and protect people and property.” – READ MORE
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