AIBU for being relived the pubs have lock out - as police get a break?

[Manchestermanchester]

One positive is the number of police and ambulance (plus fire) that have a few weeks/months of the weekend violence due to lock down?

Wtf are you on about? What pubs do you know that has fire engines and staff routinely sent to them? And the police don’t “get a break” they will just simply be shifted onto something else.

Our local police aren’t having a break. There’s more of them than ever doing patrols and they’ve made jokes about preferring to be wandering between the pubs!

I’m not sure that most pubs cause the violence that you’re envisioning... drunk people may cause violence; but they’ll still do that wherever they are.

@ronniebarkingmad you must live in a very peaceful area.

We can usually smell weed in our street most days. Smelt none since last week so it seems here even the weed dealers are keeping off the streets. Haven't seen any police at all.

YABVU. If you think the police and other emergency services are getting a break right now you and extremely naive and sorely mistaken.

@SkaLaLand

you must live in a very peaceful area.

I live on a road with two “rival” pubs at either end, one a haunt for one football team and the other a haunt for the rival one. This is far from peaceful 😂 Neverthless, although I have seen police and ambulances shown up, I have never known either pubs to be set on fire or need fire engines to show up there. I can’t see how you can think fire engines are routinely showing up to pubs as much as police and ambulances are which is why I asked the OP what sort of pubs they know?

The police are probably shifted over to the cases caused by an increase in domestic violence, murder and family annihilation that I’ve been reading about.

BIL is a domiciliary care worker and is working every day to cover for other carers who are staying home, he has been stopped about 7 times this week by the police alone asking where he is going. Don't think the police are having much of a break if they've the time to do that. As PP have said, the violence has shifted to inside the home, a horrible thought but no doubt absolutely true.

Not really. Domestic violence calls up, mental health calls up, sick leave up. I see what you mean about the carnage at kicking out time. The enterprising little buggers round these parts are breaking into nursing homes. My husband reckons it'll be like the film the purge soon.

No, domestic assault has sky rocketed. Those that used to go out and get drunk and fight, are now drinking at home and assaulting their families. It's extremely concerning and one of the main reasons I'm praying this lockdown doesn't go on too long, this is a less visible vulnerability in this crisis.

Apparently burglaries of empty businesses and shops have risen sharply. I think it'd be A&E where there'll be fewer drunks on a Friday and Saturday night.

People will be drinking at home so there will be plenty of domestic violence for the police to sort.

Yeah no calls to.pubs but a sharp increase in domestics & neighbour complaints not to mention the calls about people breaking the lock down rules. Not exactly my idea of a break 🙄

As if they are getting a break.

My brothers a police officer I can assure it's simply shifted the usual arseholes into being arseholes at home or even at supermarkets and places of work and even still at hospitals/gp surgeries on occasion.

They're just as busy as they always are plus they're having to police the safety measures (this is not a lockdown...not properly not yet)

Plus the drug addicts and alcoholics are climbing the walls!

Plus mental health services have wound down meaning guess who's dealing with those people?

I can assure you they are NOT "getting a break" at all!

A break! Give me strength

Apparently burglaries of empty businesses and shops have risen sharply.

I walked past a corner shop earlier which seems to be closed due to covid. It looked absolutely ransacked inside, literally looked like everything on the shelves was on the floor. There’s no way the owners left their shop like that.

They have to patrol roads now to make sure only essential journeys are being made too. I can imagine the abuse they get for asking.