Rave near Bath - why are the police so helpless?

There have been illegal raves for many years. I remember the from when I lived in Suffolk back in the eighties. So there's nothing you part from the alcohol being cheaper than back then and the drugs being stronger perhaps.

There are no festivals this year so the youngsters need some sort of outlet. In any event, I don't think that lightning strikes the same place twice.

No doubt the police were also engaged in patrolling the towns for all those disobeying the social distancing rules and drinking too much.

Finally, invest in some ear plugs.

apparently, the cohort least likely to wear face masks is young men. A lot of the older people are staying inside to shield themselves, IMO.

I know I'm banging on and on about this, but I really can't see why they couldn't arrest those who were transporting the equipment away from the venue afterwards. They must have been the only people in whacking great big vans (to transport the speakers). Then give them a big fine.

The same thing happened in Bristol recently. OK, it's difficult to stop once it's in full swing, but they were using big pieces of equipment. The police could easily have arrested the owners afterwards and fined them. Why not?

Word of these raves are spread through social media, which the police monitor - why didn't they pick up the information, even if it was moved from Frome to Bath, the information had to be spread somehow

Flopen because they are A&S P

Recently, we had someone on our (flat) roof. We phoned the police and, because it was classified as someone breaking in and still being in, we had so many police cars, so quickly, we couldn't believe it.
I think that they'll have to change how they police these things because the public are getting pissed off.

I live in the area and have just seen the Chief Constable interviewed on our local News and answering the complaints. There was a huge amount going on in the Bristol-Bath area over the weekend apparently, with hundreds of arrests, 14 police officers injured (one who received a dislocated shoulder, yet who still returned to work after treatment) and I, for one, after listening to what the police were having to deal with generally over that period of time, understand that they can't be everywhere and doing everything.

Police all over the country have been having a tough time recently with many injuries, also injuries to police horses and dogs. It is completely appalling.

I just listened to him too and DH and I agreed that they probably need double the number of police officers as they do seem to have given up on an attempts to police these mass gatherings in the area.

We think the cars and equipment, sound systems etc that were left behind should be crushed.

Good idea about the crushing Callistemon.