So What Can We Do With These Machete-Wielding Savages?

[youngmafbog]

Yest another attack in "part and parcel" London.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5847435/Terrifying-moment-machete-wielding-moped-thugs-threaten-doctor-watch.html

[Bazile]

I wonder if Charles Bronson is available

[Jackdaw33]

It is a sad fact that if you flaunt your wealth someone will be after it.

[naomi24]

I don't know, but I was watching the news the other night when they showed a stash of weapons the police have relieved their owners of. Unbelievably vicious weapons! Where on earth do these people get them from? Are they really that freely available?

[naomi24]

I don't know anything about the Dark Net. Can those sources not be closed down?

[youngmafbog]

Yes freely available. There is an "interesting" shop in sleepy Wimborne as well as gun shops.

[youngmafbog]

Almost impossible to close the so called Dark Web. But I doubt many of these people have the intelligence to use it, in addition you would have to be very careful about how you paid.

[ummmm]

Not much can be done. I'm so glad I don't live in a big city.

[youngmafbog]

A VPN is probably not quite what you think it is because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy. The VPN provider can see all your traffic, and do with it what they want - including logging. Providers may insist they dont log but you want to bet your ass on that?

Paying with a crypto currency is not quite as anonymous as many think. It can be if you really know what you are doing but I bet these thugs dont have that knowledge nor the funds to do it. Remember even if using a VPN for your crypto currency they will have the trail.

[Bazile]

ymb

So how do these people get away with whatever they do on the so called dark web ; if there is always some sort of trail ?

[youngmafbog]

I said there CAN be a trail. Of course the Police getting that trail when the VPN providers claim they dont have it is difficult and probably only provided in extreme circumstances.

In addition I suspect Plod have not caught up yet by and large anyway.

[sp1814]

I think the best response right now, is to fund tactical quads of plain clothed police riders, working in conjunction with plain clothes officers on the streets. The officers on the street deliberately walk around with faked mobile phones, ready to get robbed. After that, the moped-based coppers would follow the thieves until they can be apprehended.

It would be a joint operation between the Met and the London Transport Police.

After sentencing, serious jail time, plus a confiscation of assets.

[youngmafbog]

I agree entirely SP. But are they allowed to be decoys, won't that breach some Health and Safety or even be entrapment?

[ToraToraTora]

you don't need the dark web to by knives etc, they are freely available and legal.

[maggiebee]

Buy, bye, by - take your pick.

[cassa333]

Jackdaw, not flaunting your wealth eh? Is that why women should wear the Burka. Stops them being raped.

[youngmafbog]

Well, according to some extreme worshipers of a certain religion - yes.

Not sure it would stop this lot though.