UK police ‘give up’ on investigating crimes at record levels as ‘system in crisis’

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1. Maybe stop investigating people who say mean things online…

2. Shock horror

3. Unless it is ideologically against what the government wants you to think.

4. Unless it’s a mean tweet or a thought crime.

5. A system is in crisis yet has all the resources for offensive tweets. These institutions lost all their credits.

6. Car jackings and robberies are on the rise in my area and the police don’t do nothing about it (seriously) yet they seemed to be more concerned with dealing with those who posted a mean Facebook post rather than deal with actual crime. People have every reason to be mad about that.

7. They were investigating crimes?!

8. Cops treated like shit , paid shit

   Now there is a shortage of cops and the system is in crisis.

   What a shocker

9. Too busy cuffing Nan for misgendering someone. 😉

10. Maybe hire more and pay them more, just a thought? Police deal with such shxt sometimes, they deserve more pay. 

11. Tories 14 years of underfunding really starting to bite. Shock horror

12. Lazy sods, waste of time they are

13. Violent crime is out of control, and these idiots sit on reddit looking for thought crimes.

14. They’ve still got all the time in the world to plant things on people to try and get easy convictions. Gang of dick heads

15. UK policing has been on its knees for years, the amount of burglarys that have been committed where I live this month is at least 20+ and all the police do is send a panda car round the neighborhood twice a night, which is daft as the thieves just wait till it leaves then carry on robbing peoples sheds and trying to nick car keys.

    It’s like they’ve just given up on actual crime and just want the easy wins like speed camera fines and arresting people for “offensive” twitter posts.

16. Unless it’s an insult against a multimillionaire footballer. Then they’ll be at your door in record time. I hope when the damn breaks and unrest finally happens everyone spits on the worthless football protection squad and holds them accountable for their worthless job titles.

17. Police “give up” on investigations because it’s the only way to keep their heads above water.

    The average cop who is investigating a shoplifting or an assault or a public order offence has got anywhere between 10 and 50 similar investigations to be getting on with at the same time. They also have to respond to 999 calls that come in, so they may drive 40 minutes to collect some CCTV footage, only to have to run around and drive away because there’s a call they have to go to. They also have to deal with major incidents, such as protests, or sporting events, which will take up an entire shift. They also have to staff crime scenes, or guard prisoners in hospital, which also takes up entire shifts.

    The requirements made of the average officer who is supposed to investigate crime are huge. It is not physically possible for cops to manage all the things that are asked of them in an 8/9 hour shift. The result is that either call response, or crime investigation ends up suffering. If you let a live 999 call go unanswered, people could die. So you you let the crimes suffer, and go investigated. The usual result of this is someone doesn’t get the justice they deserve, but that’s better than leaving someone to get beaten and left for dead because you were busy reviewing footage of a shoplifting.

    In days past, there would be staffing and resources to allow for all of these functions to be split. A dedicated response team, who exclusively go to 999 calls. A dedicated crime unit, who manage investigations. A dedicated group who staff crime scenes and guards. But following decades of cuts, there simply are not the resources to do everything, so police have to prioritise life threatening matters.

    EXTRA: And to everyone complaining about police looking into “Offensive tweets”, this happens incredibly rarely, but the media just loves to big it up every time it happens. Largely, crimes will be recorded by admin staff, and then closed with little to no further action because they are super low level and non-issues, and will never actually take up any time of a proper police officer. When someone is prosecuted, it’s something truly outrageous. As an example, the only time I have ever investigated a social media offence was someone sending the family of a murder victim images of the victim’s body still in the crime scene. A little bit more than the hurty words that popular media would like you to think police are looking into.

18. I don’t understand why it would be difficult to catch the criminals. There are cameras all over the place.

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