Not if they're running a county lines drug business it isn't. Given the police are more interested nowadays in enforcement action against people's right to free speech, it's the duty of every citizen to step up and get involved in fighting crime in any way they can, within the limits of the resources and capabilities they have.
Yup. And if Cursitor wants to be a peeping tom, that's between the pair of them
Good point. Well made. <Error corrected>
Actually, "taking the law into your own hands" is generally frowned upon, and any evidence you might gather is probably inadmissible in court.
Seeing as it's our law, and it applies to us, whose hands should it be in?
The police are certainly in the final stages of washing their hands of it.
That's not the problem. If it reveals a fact that can be confirmed without breaking any laws - such as watching as a car trunk is loaded with drugs, and then accidentally ramming it at an intersection...
An AM5 AMD processor has a built-in GPU, which is two compute units and a separate 6mm on edge GPU silicon die inside the CPU.
The motherboard has a DP connector and a HDMI connector in the "I/O plate area". You check for the connectors before buying a retail motherboard.
HDMI 2.1 DisplayPort 2.0
Which will drive any 4K monitor or TV set, to the moon and back. (Higher than normal frame rate, Deep Colour, High Dynamic Range output)
These will be protected with the appropriate HDCP standard, so any software wanting a Protected Video Path for media playback, should be able to get it.
You can never believe these things, unless they are verified in a review. Companies have lied before, about standards compliance.
That's an example, of how you can upgrade motherboard, CPU, RAM Type, and get a capable graphics driving capability, without having to fork out for a separate video card.
A Zen4 7600X CPU has this stuff built in, as a separate silicon die inside the CPU package. The back of the motherboard shows the graphics connectors. In this picture, the two graphics outputs are to the right of the gold Wifi connectors.
Paul
They sell drugs in my road. They do it from cars. I suppose they prearrange a sale over the internet, and then meet up.
Normally, I wouldn't care, but one of the dealers did a three point turn on my front lawn after I had an argument with him about blocking the road.
It's everywhere, the police won't take any notice.
The dealers used to park up and drugs were traded out of the car window but in the past couple of years the druggie waits on a corner, a car turns up, he gets in the car which then drives around the block and back to a different corner where the druggie gets out.
Although it's been reported the dealing is still ongoing in the same way.
That sounds a bit like "Render unto Caesar..." It's only "our law" insofar as we are required to comply with it. We have little or no input on its creation or in the details of its content. Placing its implementation in the hands of the hoi polloi is the first step on the road to vigilantism and lynch mobs. Do you want to end up like Texas, where every trigger-happy redneck has the power of judge, jury, and executioner?
Not ideally, that's what we employ police, judges etc for.
But if they refuse to do their jobs, vigilantism is what you get, willy nilly. On the way to being Haiti, of course...
Police allocate resources according to where the crime is.
Petty crime receives a response. It's just not the response you would want.
But the elements of your vigilantism, the offenses you committed there, are quite a lot higher up the criminal totem pole. You'll be charged, and the penalty will mean living in a cell "with the people you hate". Which is quite a punishment, as it were.
Sometimes, you come to a bad end, just in the holding cell before the trial. Life offers such perverse luck sometimes. Some of the holding facilities are worse than a regular jail (overcrowding).
The crims will be very amused at your stories, such as your "I thought I was BatMan" story.
Paul
We're already half-way to Haiti and it seems to me the cause of that is the distinct *lack* of vigilantism in society - and way too much apathy on the part of the great British public.
Where friends live the local police and crime commissioner (or what ever they call the political elected official) suggested in a letter sent to all residents that the public should take more responsibly for preventing crime. This was prior to him having public meetings to reassure the public that policing in the rural area was improving. In these public meetings he was asked on more than one occasion if his words in the letter was the go-ahead to set up local vigilantly groups if the police didn't respond to reported crime. His response was to leave everything to the Police.
This is in an area where the Police are seldom seen and seldom respond to (property or farm vehicle) theft and where a local social media group reports such crimes, often every day.
But, punishment for which party?
(Both, I suppose.)
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