Yes, was talking to one on a bus a year ago, call came thru to the bus driver that children were throwing stones at a bus stop which was 2 stops out. Policeman

Yes, was talking to one on a bus a year ago, call came thru to the bus driver that children were throwing stones at a bus stop which was 2 stops out. Policeman was like, sorry I can't attend as I have a meeting to go to, which did not go down well with the driver or indeed anybody within earshot. More so, turns out that meeting was a community meeting if anybody wanted to report...any antisocial behaviour. WHich kinda summed up the police in my area - they want to be seen to be doing the job, over actually doing the job. I could list many personal experiences with the police being inept, incompetent, negligent that after over 50 years, I personally lost respect for the police and that still saddens me to this day. What I see happen is you get a new recruit, lots of drive, keen and they get exposed to apathy thru paperwork, over PC mentality and what can only be described as liberal bias. I say that as when you see drug dealers get away with doing their thing and the neibours who suffer them being ignored and dismissed by the police who class these dealers as victims time and time again, the local people loose faith in the police. Even to the stage that people do not pass information to the police as they either ignore that information or worse, pass it onto the criminals with the information of who passed it onto them (yes that has happened a few times as well around my part of London). In short, sure there are many good police, many fine people, but the number of bad eggs really has ruined more than the sum of the parts.