what's the country coming to?

when minor incidents like these shown in the link are recorded as violent crimes.

http://www.aol.co.uk/2015/06/23/forc...id=maing-grid7

Re: what's the country coming to?

Bl**DY ridiculous, they should be in Toyland!!!

What happened to the real Beef of police that could clear up, druggies, drunks, murderers, paedophiles, fraud, robbers, smugglers, and the rest... ???

Re: what's the country coming to?

How ridiculous. Waste of police time and money. Who is reporting these incidents ?

Re: what's the country coming to?

Regarding the mother slapping the child..How often have we heard about abuse only after a child is dead and said if only someone had called the police?

Re: what's the country coming to?

I think there is a big difference Cass between slapping a child on the hand for stealing and smacking a child senseless.
Abuse of children rarely takes place in public, almost always behind closed doors.

Re: what's the country coming to?

Yeah, ok Cass, but a slap on the hand hardly constitutes physical abuse, if I had pinched something when I was a child I would have had a clout around the earhole but I was never physically abused. I suppose if a mother did that today it would be classed as abuse.