Witness to a drug deal. Have reg number. Report?

[DameDoggieDoo]

I witnessed a very blatant drug deal yesterday between a random car and a neighbour who I know to use recreational drugs. It took place right outside my house. I noted the dealers car registration plate.

Should I report it to the police? (I don't mean reporting the neighbour, I mean tipping the police off that reg plate XXXXX belongs to a drug dealer).

Ok so the answer is that you don’t understand. No problem.

Exactly. And she hasn’t responded to another point I made comparing police violence to male violence. Telling someone who has had first hand experience of abusive police behaviour that not all police are like that and if they have met every police officer in the country is akin to telling a woman who has been abused by a man that not all men are like that and she cannot be wary of or say anything disparaging about men because she has not met every man on the planet.

Like it or not, the police have a history of violence, racism, misogyny and corruption. And I would not willingly put myself in the position of having to trust them to keep me safe. Drug dealers have never actively harmed me. Police officers have.

Drug dealing is all around us. You are fighting a losing battle reporting it though. The police won't do anything. I would be especially careful to not get involved if you live next to a drug user/regular user.

I agree with the person above who said you don't want your house on fire. Drug dealers are nasty pieces of work and know hitmen. Steer clear!

Sorry it has happened so close to home though. I really would not be happy but it is best to turn a blind eye it really is.

In my friends street someone rocked up in a very old caravan and proceeded to deal for months. They even hooked up to electricity through a nearby lamppost. Several neighbours reported to the police, council and the national grid. Initially someone from the council came and put a sort of metal tie around the lamppost panel to lock it. The caravan and dealing remained for four months. They eventually moved on but were spotted about half a mile away soon after.

Interpret how you wish 🙂

There is no talking to you.

No I wouldn't report, I see drug deals going on in my area sometimes. The police know it happens. I don't really care enough about it to invite repercussions onto me or my family.

It’s highly likely the police already know who the small time dealers in their local area are.

WinterMorn your comments are going from debate to insults, you can’t tell someone who is a victim that they can’t feel that way. The poster states she was harmed by police. Believe her.
You feel that the police are SO good that there their mere presence stops drug dealers and won’t acknowledge that they aren’t always great. Look at the police in America. They treat black men so badly. There have been cases here in England of policemen committing assaults and murder.
Maybe you are some kind of crime fighting machine that helps your local police have a 100% conviction rate and keeps your town crime free. Mine does not.

Stuff like this. Just do it anonymously.

Then stop.

Oh go away with your sanctimonious shite. Did you actually read what that poster wrote? I would rather someone dealt my DD coke than maimed her for life. At least then I could try and educate her. Now shoot me.

Just report anonymously.....

A colleague at work watched a neighbours car get set alight last week. Someone walked up, poured petrol over it and boom! I knew someone who was a Chief Inspector. He told the story of an officer stopping at a shop and whilst inside a local walked up with a power saw and cut the roof off the patrol car. This in the middle of a bright sunny day and no witnesses. Would you report this and be prepared to give evidence?

Yes.

@DameDoggieDoo

I can guarantee the police will do absolutely nothing. When DDs were in my flat in London, you’d be surprised at the adults queueing up at the ice cream van! Also definite dealing outside the church across the road when primary dc coming out of school. Also in the park next door. DDs reported it to the police and - nothing. I reported it to the headteacher so I hope parents got a heads up. They might have been buying of course! This behaviour is absolutely everywhere. The police - nothing will be done. You just have to accept people are not what you would like them to be. Yes, a local drug dealer was murdered. The person reporting is not known to them but they’ve got more to worry about from “within”.

If you report this, the chances of (a) the police doing anything (b) it resulting in a conviction and (c) there being no consequences for you are zero. I would just mind your own business. And I don’t care if that makes me a bad citizen, it’s the reality of our criminal justice system.

Admittedly this is based exclusively from TV, but don't the police generally know who local drug dealers are?

No. It's none of your business

It is the OP’s business though when it’s happening where she lives if she doesn’t like it (who would?!).

If we all turn a blind eye to things, then society gets worse. There was a time when we never smelled weed, now it’s smoked openly because rarely do the police seem to do much. (Not a criticism of the police, more an observation) so therefore people have just started to accept it happens now. How long before people openly start to take hard drugs (happened recently on a London tube) and we ignore that too.

and you have no right to judge

No right to judge someone who chooses to deal drugs?. Its unlikely this person is a pillar of society who decided to give this a go whilst raising money for charities and cooking for the homeless. I think most people would judge someone who deals drugs.

Yeah, i wouldn't get involved girl, sorry 😐, I've watched Top Boy! x

As do not take much notice of tv programmes. They are not life and nothing will happen to op. One would like to think the police would act but they simply don’t. Trading is in the open. In daylight. Of course the police could whizz round and do something but they have no interest in stopping this. It’s very disappointing but it’s barely seen as a crime now. They don’t see it as harming anyone innocent.

Worth reporting - to help police build up a picture. There have been drug raids round my way (very suburban, seemingly low crime area), and they have their info from neighbours reporting suspicions.

You sound nice.

@BingoBling Might be a novelty where you live but in London they aren’t interested. We had a huge drugs bust in the village next door to ours 20 years ago. Helicopters with flood lights, police in combat gear with guns - a drug import business run by an ex “drug squad” copper.

If it was a one off then no probably not.

We had some dealers downstairs in my block for ages. It was terrible. Lots of kicking off on hot summers nights. Police vans and raids.

I do remember at one point being asked if we had observed anything and I passed on what I'd seen and heard.

They've gone now so the police obviously got enough Intel or evidence.

Main reason I did it was that young kids were involved - you'd see them running drugs and I just couldn't not say anything.

Also I live on several floors above and this was the outside facing ground floor flats so I felt relatively safe.