Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

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Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".
Officers in Luton said hooded tops were being used to hide weapons and conceal the identities of offenders.
Det Insp Alan Postawa said people wearing "street clothing" were blamed for more than 60 robberies in the past three weeks.
Extra officers would be drafted on to the town's streets to tackle the "hoodies", he added.
The force denied that they were unfairly targeting youths wearing the sweatshirts, saying it was unfortunate that they had been adopted by criminals.
Youths robbing youths
Det Insp Postawa said: "Most teenage robbers dress in a similar way so targeting people wearing these types of clothes directly may prevent offences as well as detect them.
"It is disturbing that many criminals do wear this type of clothing, but our first responsibility is to protect the public."
Some 61 people have been robbed on the streets of Luton this month, police said, mostly young people being robbed by "prolific" young offenders.
Another 68 robberies were recorded in September, with just 18 detected.
This new campaign is the latest in a long line of campaigns against youths in hooded tops.
Earlier this year Manchester teenager Dale Carroll, 16, was banned from wearing a hooded top for five years after terrorising a community.

And in May of this year the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent was the first to adopt a total "hoodie" ban.

How long until they do it nationwide?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 22 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if the police will stop and search everyone entering gigs!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Cue Lady Sov song.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a good idea. I think we should all wear uniforms and have grooming laws, personally. Democracy has failed.

― Fascion, Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Hug a hoodie says Cameron.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Shall we start a "hug a Tory" campaign?

They're only horrible Tories because they feel so unloved and have no love for their fellow man. If we hug them, and loosen up their little ties, they may no longer feel the need to be so repressed and inhibited and Conservative.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

society needs to be more understanding of young people who wear hooded tops

hahahahaha!

aw.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

It was pretty great that David Cameron said this. A Tory leader that the Tory party hate is the best kind, but that doesn't mean anyone should vote for them.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hug a Tory, nick the keys to the 4x4, the wallet AND get a proposition all in one grab...

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Mr Cameron will argue that youngsters often wear hoodies to try to make themselves "invisible" and avoid trouble.

a good observation by Cameron (or the person who wrote his speech).

It was pretty great that David Cameron said this.

How many great things would he have to say before it's okay to vote for them?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

It will never be OK to vote for them; they are the Tories.

― stet (stet), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

"We've got eight or nine year old children roaming the streets on crack, living with their prostitute mothers in sordid squats where, where rats, literally, eat the babies." - Iain Duncan Smith on the Today show this morning - hurrah for the old face of the Tories!

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg/435px-Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cameron rates hoodies above Scots. With a name like Cameron, too.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

"It will never be OK to vote for them; they are the Tories."

I tried explaining this to our local Tory candidate at the elections in May, but she just didn't get it. Kept trying to tell me all the great things they're going to do for "the young" and so on.

"But you're the Tories," I just kept saying....

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

That is not a hoodie, that is a cape, as we have already established on the Watercooler thread.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose Labour/Blair could keep doing bad things and it wouldn't matter.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

I guess this is compassionate conservatism, i.e. "We'll throw you in prison but we'll feel bad doing it."

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Rick Wakeman is a well-known Tory supporter.

Ah yes HOLDING ON TO NURSE FOR FEAR OF SOMETHING WORSE part 928.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think many young people wear hoodies because they like them.

He is very funny David Cameron. I hope I never end up laughing on the other side of my face.

I am now going to eat TWO egg custards. I wonder what he thinks of that.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's not good enough to just eat two egg custards. You have to look at the reasons behind why someone might do that.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

And form at least two egg custard focus groups to do so.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

This just in: Neighbourhoodies raided in anti-terrorism sting

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

> I am now going to eat TWO egg custards.

wife still not back then 8)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

my vote goes to egg custards. yum.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

A Tory leader that the Tory party hate is the best kind, but that doesn't mean anyone should vote for them.

there is some proposal whereby laypeople are gonna get to vote for who actually stands in elections, right? they were talking about it on the radio last week but i was half asleep. you'll get to vote for who you think should stand as candidate from any party, whether you're a member or supporter of that party or not. surely this is wide open to sabotage from each side? hm, might be fun.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

For the London Mayoral election the Tories are inviting nominations from anyone in the capital. You can nominate whoever you want. BUT a cabal of top Conservatives will then pick a shortlist of six bland, safe, MOR candidates, who will then be put to a public TEXTVOTE! just like on Pop Idol.

Tories only, Labour are sticking with his Ken-ness.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

What a choice.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's a two egg custard system.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Any ILxors planning to run?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.greenwichconservatives.com/section/115/

Seems they've added a whole bunch of rules that Davey didn't share with the world when he announced the idea.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

people with a criminal conviction of certain types within the last five years

That gives Jeffrey Archer a free run, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

You also have to satisfy at least one of the following conditions:

a. you need to be, and continue to be, a registered voter in Greater London;
b. you need to live or own land in Greater London;
c. your principal or only place of work is in Greater London;
d. you reside in Greater London

So very, very Tory...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Does Greenwich count as "Greater London"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is it proportional egg custard, or first egg custard past the post?

Surely we all own Drury Lane Gardens or something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Funnily enough I've just eaten a family-sized egg custard. It was delicious but I now feel slightly sick. Which is exactly the same feeling I get when I hear Cameron talk.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

delicious?

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, delicious, it was yr run of the mill custard tart though - oh no - it was artisanal - the egg custard section was particularly fine. Just the right side of very wobbly.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

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