I’m not surprised, the police are absolutely useless. Yes, they are underfunded—but they still managed to get 8 officers out to arrest a 16 year old girl for calling a cop a Lesbian Grandma.
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Not to mention the number of cops they have stuck at the station pushing pens and filling forms. Cut down the bureaucracy would help, get the cops out on the streets rather than pushing a pen around filling forms and paperwork.
> Whatever its specifics, the likelihood is that it has not been solved
> There is purportedly a police station in Lyndhurst but the internet describes it as “permanently closed”
Tier 1 journalism from The Guardian, that Pulitzer is practically on the mantelpiece.
I always get downvoted for this and I don’t know why but anyone who has any involvement with the police whatsoever knows that this isn’t a simply a funding issue; New intake officers simply do not have the nous or intelligence to investigate anything. They have no interest or ability to formulate an investigation, seek out evidence, follow chains of events, etc, despite us being the most surveilled country on Earth.
Try reporting a theft that’s happened in a surveilled area to the police. They’ll make YOU try and obtain the footage, edit and and extract the relevant parts, submit it according to their Byzantine bureaucratic system, and then just ignore it anyway.
We’ve recently had a spate of thefts within the block of flats I live in, and when we contacted the police with copious amounts of Ring doorbell footage of the assailants with full view of their faces, the police’s response was (I shit you not) ‘Well, who are they?’ and when we responded that we obviously did not know who they were and that it’s the job of the police to investigate such things we were told ‘Well if you don’t know who they are, how do you expect us to find out who they are and do something about it?’ They quite literally wanted us to hand them a completed police investigation on a platter before they’d act, and yet they still expect to be paid a full salary with decent benefits for the privilege of allowing us to do their job for them.
Throwing money at that kind of system isn’t gonna do anything apart from yielding higher salaries to these incurious plods who think the extent of police work is extracting vague ‘confessions’ to non-offences that nearly always get dropped before reaching court. It’s just a numbers game, and none of it has to do with the actual provision of solving crime.
I live in a quiet, rural village and we used to have a police station years ago but they were totally useless, if you had a problem the place was invariably closed or on the odd occassion you got to see the Duty Sargeant he wasn’t interested.
A few years ago they shut it down and the site was rebuilt as an Old Folks Home. The local joke is: “Well no change there then.”
It’s all for “The Greater Good.”
When I was hit by a drunk driver (I was in my car) on literally the main road in my massive town, next to a petrol station, police come and take details etc.
Then they ask “ok, is there anything you’d like us to do”. Ermm oh I don’t know, CHECK ALL OF THE FUCKING CAMERAS ON THE ROAD. MAYBE CHECK THAT SPEED CAMERA, BECAUSE HE WAS SPEEDING. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME HOW TO DO YOUR JOB???????
And of course nothing happened, except for the fact my insurance found out about it (not sure how, we didn’t claim and actually paid to fix it ourselves), and then the cost of my insurance nearly doubled.
What a joke.
In my quiet market town I was getting chased around my some roided up idiot because he was upset I needed to look around his car to get out of a parking space.
Local cop shop is only manned between 12-1pm. 111 tells me to go there anyway. I call the number on the door and never hear anything back. I got a caution for it.
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I’m not surprised, the police are absolutely useless. Yes, they are underfunded—but they still managed to get 8 officers out to arrest a 16 year old girl for calling a cop a Lesbian Grandma.
​
Not to mention the number of cops they have stuck at the station pushing pens and filling forms. Cut down the bureaucracy would help, get the cops out on the streets rather than pushing a pen around filling forms and paperwork.
> Whatever its specifics, the likelihood is that it has not been solved
> There is purportedly a police station in Lyndhurst but the internet describes it as “permanently closed”
Tier 1 journalism from The Guardian, that Pulitzer is practically on the mantelpiece.
I always get downvoted for this and I don’t know why but anyone who has any involvement with the police whatsoever knows that this isn’t a simply a funding issue; New intake officers simply do not have the nous or intelligence to investigate anything. They have no interest or ability to formulate an investigation, seek out evidence, follow chains of events, etc, despite us being the most surveilled country on Earth.
Try reporting a theft that’s happened in a surveilled area to the police. They’ll make YOU try and obtain the footage, edit and and extract the relevant parts, submit it according to their Byzantine bureaucratic system, and then just ignore it anyway.
We’ve recently had a spate of thefts within the block of flats I live in, and when we contacted the police with copious amounts of Ring doorbell footage of the assailants with full view of their faces, the police’s response was (I shit you not) ‘Well, who are they?’ and when we responded that we obviously did not know who they were and that it’s the job of the police to investigate such things we were told ‘Well if you don’t know who they are, how do you expect us to find out who they are and do something about it?’ They quite literally wanted us to hand them a completed police investigation on a platter before they’d act, and yet they still expect to be paid a full salary with decent benefits for the privilege of allowing us to do their job for them.
Throwing money at that kind of system isn’t gonna do anything apart from yielding higher salaries to these incurious plods who think the extent of police work is extracting vague ‘confessions’ to non-offences that nearly always get dropped before reaching court. It’s just a numbers game, and none of it has to do with the actual provision of solving crime.
I live in a quiet, rural village and we used to have a police station years ago but they were totally useless, if you had a problem the place was invariably closed or on the odd occassion you got to see the Duty Sargeant he wasn’t interested.
A few years ago they shut it down and the site was rebuilt as an Old Folks Home. The local joke is: “Well no change there then.”
It’s all for “The Greater Good.”
When I was hit by a drunk driver (I was in my car) on literally the main road in my massive town, next to a petrol station, police come and take details etc.
Then they ask “ok, is there anything you’d like us to do”. Ermm oh I don’t know, CHECK ALL OF THE FUCKING CAMERAS ON THE ROAD. MAYBE CHECK THAT SPEED CAMERA, BECAUSE HE WAS SPEEDING. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME HOW TO DO YOUR JOB???????
And of course nothing happened, except for the fact my insurance found out about it (not sure how, we didn’t claim and actually paid to fix it ourselves), and then the cost of my insurance nearly doubled.
What a joke.
In my quiet market town I was getting chased around my some roided up idiot because he was upset I needed to look around his car to get out of a parking space.
Local cop shop is only manned between 12-1pm. 111 tells me to go there anyway. I call the number on the door and never hear anything back. I got a caution for it.
Fuck the police. Bent all of them.