Police crackdown for summer

As a victim 3 years ago of anti-social behaviour from children between 8 and 12 years old I would like to see this as an all year round crackdown. When I first reported the problem to the police I received a letter informing me that these were 'just children playing in their neighbourhood' and the police would not respond if called again. I suffered for 18 months, at one time ten children were stood in my front garden shouting and gesturing at me. When they started throwing fruit and eggs at my window I decided to contact the council for help. The council contacted the police and because incidents had been reported in other streets, they did do something. I now only have occassional problems, but I dread the sound of children walking past my house and I still have little confidence in receiving support from the police.

@KBJ we got drunk as older teens too but never in childrens play areas and never left empty bottles laying around or caused a disturbance, we did our socialising on the beach and if we did make any noise we were dealt with and didnt do it again as the police had power and some respect then. I would also say that the great majority of young people today, are well behaved and well brought up here on the Island but there is definately a change in whats acceptable now with a large number of 5yr olds upwards along with some as young as 3yrs old using foul words to abuse each other and adults, fighting and swearing using the F & C words as the norm this seems to have started over the last 5yrs or so and is fast becoming worse.

what kind of person says 'its the beginning of the end of our way of life on the Island'...afraid your 20/30 years to late..people on the Island see the mainland as either some great place to get to to get away from petty island gossips, other see it as a nightmare ....in reality it is just like where you live....people and neighbourhoods are the same everywhere. If the Island was to become somewhere like Tetbury (on the mainland) loads wouldn't complain, if you told them it was becoming like Brighton loads would be happy , loads dismayed, if you told them it was becoming like Brixton the same. The Island is a microcosm of whats on the big Island and always has been.

PS we got drunk in playgrounds 40 years ago when I was a young teen

Well if Wroxall is anything to go by, the decline has already happened, with young children fighting each other and using the F word all the time in the play area, girl gangs, also older boys & girls swearing and being a total nuisance in the same area, sometimes from 10pm until 3-30am, then leaving empty vodka bottles laying around, to get smashed and causing a hazard to children and wildlife, its a total meance but seems to accepted now as being the norm no one in authority seems to care anymore. Give me Pan any day.

Expect more of this anti social behavior in future, particularly when you have people moving into affordable housing (Pan meadows etc)from other mainland areas that they do not want and try and integrate them into an infrastructure or policing resources that cannot cope with the attitude and lawlessness these sort of people bring with them.
its the beginning of the end for our way of life here on the island, you mark my words , in a few years it will be as bad as the mainland.

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