Quote Originally Posted by charley chester View Post
As a resident of the area, in my opinion the centre has had no affect on the area. It is as bad if not worse than ever. The police patrol infrequently in their cars and vans. However I have not seen a beat bobby for years. We are not that far from St. Anne Street yet we seem to have been forgotten. A couple of months ago I witnessed a police officer sitting in his patrol car searching one of the local youths. He did this by winding down his window and patting down the youth. As he was sitting down he only managed to search the top half of the boy, if he had a couple of guns tucked into his socks he was in no danger of being found out. Stolen cars are more regular visitors than the police and motor bikes regularly do circuits of the local streets until the early hours. All in, a wonderful place to live.
sounds like where I live in Anfield. Although just lately there have been one or two sightings of police. I saw two of them on foot before, and I mentioned to them the fact that there are 3 or 4 cars parked everyday on a local shopping road - and I mean parked full four wheels on the pavement. I was in a shop there the other day and was amazed to see a car reverse quite a few feet past the shop window - the shop keeper told me it is a frequent occurence, and since then I have noticed that there are cars parked full on that pavement all the time - shoppers having to walk around them. Where are the police or traffic wardens ??
I supose it will take a car to back into someone before anyone takes notice - or a child running out of one of the shops and under the wheels.
I mentioned this to the two passing policmen and was told that they were not from that side of the boundary and I should ring the council