First major snowfall in the UK this year and ASBO (Anti Social Behavior) ... how are they related?

Well, you are working hard to get the knives off the streets, reduce anti social behavior, and mother nature gives a free, powerful tool to the hands of the antisocial youths in one overnight. 

The SNOW. 

There were countless calls in my last duty relating common assaults, criminal damages commited by snowballs. The little "inventors" hid a small stone in the middle and built the snowball around it, and there you go, they just manufactured a good weapon... a weapon of opportunity as "we" say :)

Damaged windows, car windscreens, and upset neighbours. The joyful days of the snowfall ...