{"id":306637,"date":"2025-07-31T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306637\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:06:10","slug":"the-days-of-reporting-a-crime-in-an-actual-police-station-theyre-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306637\/","title":{"rendered":"The days of reporting a crime in an actual police station? They&#8217;re over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the solution is our old friend, visible policing. And there\u2019s less and less of it, possibly because police numbers have fallen &#8211; from a peak of 34,523 officers in April 2023 to 32,609 as of last month &#8211; a loss of almost 2,000 officers. But also<strong>,<\/strong> police attention is occupied elsewhere. Over the last five years the Met logged no fewer than 15,000 non-crime hate incidents, which means police time not spent arresting shoplifters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of the solution is our old friend, visible policing. And there\u2019s less and less of it, possibly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,257,135,529,5549,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-metropolitan-police","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-safety","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947999983515199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}