Thoughts on Cycling Mikey

[matticus]

Well then why did you ask that question?

I made it quite clear in that post that I thought reporting to the police was absolutely fine.



I'm not aware of the police saying anything about Cycling Mikey specifically, positive or negative.

But this is a general article on the subject of vigilanteism from the police federation
https://www.police-foundation.org.u...n-citizens-take-the-law-into-their-own-hands/

Bit weird - choosing an article that is almost entirely about paedophile hunters:

"Ahead of the Police Foundation’s annual conference on Policing and the Public, Ruth Halkon examines the rise of vigilantism (or so-called paedophile hunters) and explores what motivates the public to take the law into their own hands.

The vexed question of what role the public should play in fighting crime is again dominating the headlines after a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions involving evidence from “paedophile hunters”. According to the BBC, the number of grooming cases brought to trial through the involvement of vigilante groups has more than tripled in two years. Last year, more than half of the 403 people prosecuted for attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming were charged using evidence from these groups. In some forces, vigilante groups influenced 100 per cent of cases."

 

[matticus]

The relevant bit would seem to be:

... they [the public] nevertheless have a responsibility to help preserve community safety. According to the Peelian principles the only difference between the public and the police is that the police are “paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare” – in other words the public are not absolved from their responsibilities to their fellow citizens just because their taxes pay for a police officer to don a uniform and walk the beat.

 

[Glyno]

I’ve seen dozens of videos of Mikey doing what he does, and in not one of them have I seen him actively or directly prevent an accident. To me at least, the sole objective of his actions is to get offending motorists to amass penalty points, fined, or ultimately, banned. He almost always seems to take great pleasure in smugly informing the offender as such.

I’m not against the results of his actions per se, I just don’t accept that he’s going around like some guardian angel.

 

[mustang1]

I used to ride in regents park a lot. I would hate to be the cyclist that has just turned left onto the main road only to see a car coming headon towards me.

He does a fine job of stopping people who think they can get away with crap driving because they're "late". If he gets some YouTube views out of it then fine. What I don't get are the occasional passers by who try and justify the driver's actions.