The police in the UK don’t always allocate their resources wisely (and have innumerable other faults). However, this seems to me to be a case where the police c

The police in the UK don’t always allocate their resources wisely (and have innumerable other faults). However, this seems to me to be a case where the police correctly stopped allocating resources to an investigation that wasn’t going to get any closer to building a criminal case against anyone. I think it’s fair to call your second bullet point a ‘hot take’. Police funding was hit hard by austerity and the effects of that are still with us. It’s not credible or evidence-based to attribute the overall shortage of resources to overpolicing of tweets (however annoying and stupid that may be considered in itself).