Firstly and I assume most importantly there is no phone number or even electronic address.
I wanted to report that someone came into my , multiple occupancy, house and stole my bicycle. This is one of those small crimes that add up to a heavy load of social despondency. No one think these things matter but each one of these small anti social acts adds to a social malaise, a malaise engendered by the sense that we are on our own, each one of us not part of a society (Moseley for example) but alone in our sense of victimhood.
That the police offer no social cohesion because they are, frankly, absent speaks volumes about the impoverishment of what was one a really vibrant Birmingham community. read more