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Haven't the police in the UK been chronically underfunded through a decade plus of austerity policies? I get the feeling they are so under water, they can only

by nvarsj 4y ago

Haven't the police in the UK been chronically underfunded through a decade plus of austerity policies? I get the feeling they are so under water, they can only deal with the most serious crimes.

gambiting 4y ago
I feel like this is exactly correct. Police are so underfunded that outside of London they won't even come out to speak with you unless the crime is very serious. But break ins, car/bike theft, petty issues - forget it, no time or resources to do that.
Zenst 4y ago
In part but still so many examples of them failing when no excuse to fail that it just don't carry as much water as you would think. Though mindful the bigger issue would be prosecution just being so epicly fail and a whole raft of lawyers who know the law way better and the tricks that anybody who does go to court and gets sentence kinda needs to be so blantantly guilty to get past the most liberal minded of easily maniplated jurys by lawyers that even those get pithy sentences which get an automatic discount. Real issue is prisons that are akin to social/networking clubs for criminals and absolutily no deterant at all. Let alone failing that are more common than people realise like this example: https://www.businessinsider.com/desperate-letter-details-suicide-victims-struggle-with-neighbors-from-hell-2013-1?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/desperate-letter-details-sui... Another small example would be https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18250633.shoplifter-jailed-banned-disguises/ https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18250633.shoplifter-jaile... in that instance he got let out after two weeks which he was able to still get paid benifits and the joy of being banned from wearing a face-mask in shops just prior to the whole COVID pandemic - what geniues. Heck - how many can get away with calling a judge a Witch and get such a pithy sentence of 6 weeks yet out in 2. Let alone the charges. Hardly a deterant, more holiday club. So if anything - the whole prision and sentencing system as well as financially propping up the whole prosecution needs to be addressed first as they fail the police who inturn fail everybody else. After all, police hands so tied with things that they are so exposed to being sued for saying even a hurty word to a criminal who has lawyers with skills that sure I can accept some level of blame outside the police, but equally, very mindful of so much failure above and beyond that within their remit that the whole system a stumbling joke to many. So austerity, not the issue when the ones you have fail so hard and with that, demoralise and push out any that are good. Needs serious overhaul and some serious questons and mistakes admitted to. Cuckooing, it's not all that it seems, far from it, but that's best covered when I get it all public.
Terry_Roll 4y ago
Its all intelligence lead now a days, so much meta data from mobile phone's you can track most people quite easily. Lifespans of drug users are drastically shortened, and with todays global population which has doubled since 1970's planetary resources are scarce, so are most people bothered if a spipce user is locked in a time vortex? I noticed that this post appeared on Reddit the other day, suggesting people should start wearing woolly gimp masks to avoid facial recognition, which started in China. Have to wait and see if it catches on in the UK. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/umoflx/wearing_balaclava_outside_in_daytime_is_this_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/umoflx/wearing_balac...

by nvarsj 4y ago

Haven't the police in the UK been chronically underfunded through a decade plus of austerity policies? I get the feeling they are so under water, they can only deal with the most serious crimes.

gambiting 4y ago

I feel like this is exactly correct. Police are so underfunded that outside of London they won't even come out to speak with you unless the crime is very serious. But break ins, car/bike theft, petty issues - forget it, no time or resources to do that.

Zenst 4y ago

In part but still so many examples of them failing when no excuse to fail that it just don't carry as much water as you would think. Though mindful the bigger issue would be prosecution just being so epicly fail and a whole raft of lawyers who know the law way better and the tricks that anybody who does go to court and gets sentence kinda needs to be so blantantly guilty to get past the most liberal minded of easily maniplated jurys by lawyers that even those get pithy sentences which get an automatic discount. Real issue is prisons that are akin to social/networking clubs for criminals and absolutily no deterant at all. Let alone failing that are more common than people realise like this example: https://www.businessinsider.com/desperate-letter-details-suicide-victims-struggle-with-neighbors-from-hell-2013-1?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/desperate-letter-details-sui... Another small example would be https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18250633.shoplifter-jailed-banned-disguises/ https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18250633.shoplifter-jaile... in that instance he got let out after two weeks which he was able to still get paid benifits and the joy of being banned from wearing a face-mask in shops just prior to the whole COVID pandemic - what geniues. Heck - how many can get away with calling a judge a Witch and get such a pithy sentence of 6 weeks yet out in 2. Let alone the charges. Hardly a deterant, more holiday club. So if anything - the whole prision and sentencing system as well as financially propping up the whole prosecution needs to be addressed first as they fail the police who inturn fail everybody else. After all, police hands so tied with things that they are so exposed to being sued for saying even a hurty word to a criminal who has lawyers with skills that sure I can accept some level of blame outside the police, but equally, very mindful of so much failure above and beyond that within their remit that the whole system a stumbling joke to many. So austerity, not the issue when the ones you have fail so hard and with that, demoralise and push out any that are good. Needs serious overhaul and some serious questons and mistakes admitted to. Cuckooing, it's not all that it seems, far from it, but that's best covered when I get it all public.

Terry_Roll 4y ago

Its all intelligence lead now a days, so much meta data from mobile phone's you can track most people quite easily. Lifespans of drug users are drastically shortened, and with todays global population which has doubled since 1970's planetary resources are scarce, so are most people bothered if a spipce user is locked in a time vortex? I noticed that this post appeared on Reddit the other day, suggesting people should start wearing woolly gimp masks to avoid facial recognition, which started in China. Have to wait and see if it catches on in the UK. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/umoflx/wearing_balaclava_outside_in_daytime_is_this_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/umoflx/wearing_balac...