It is on social media
It certainly is, and a few of the posts on Facebook are almost as unpleasant as the behaviour they are describing - nasty snobbish stuff, demonising 'chavs' and people who live in council houses etc etc.
Main areas that I'm aware of, Memorial Park, the town centre and Brabyns Park..... Times, varies too but afternoons and evenings mostly. They appear to be targeting anyone and everyone who crosses their path.
Am I the only person who is surprised to see Brabyns Park listed there? My own experience may not be typical, but I walk our dog virtually every afternoon in Brabyns, and occasionally in the evenings too. There are plenty of people around - families, groups of teenagers - picnicking and playing in the river, especially in the recent heatwave. But I have never once seen anything untoward. The worst I've witnessed is kids dropping litter.......
. So I'd be sorry if people started to believe that Brabyns has become a no-go area. The danger then is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: people start to believe that an area is not safe, so they stop going there, so anyone out to cause trouble or misbehave in some way is more likely to get away with it. So even fewer people go there.
Admin refers in another post to an incident in Brabyns in which a woman was 'accosted' in her car yesterday. I had not heard about that (admin can you tell us any more?), and I'm not suggesting that it should not be taken seriously. But one isolated incident doesn't make Brabyns a 'no-go area'.
