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Collapse of confidence in police

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BovaryX · 15/02/2020 06:50

The Telegraph reports that public confidence in the police to investigate actual crimes is at an all time low. This is in the same issue which gives prominent coverage to Harry Miller's case.

As few as one in nine people believe police would solve their case if they were victims of crime, according to an exclusive YouGov poll that exposes a collapse in public confidence in the criminal justice system.

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BovaryX · 15/02/2020 07:47

Lojoh
That is terrible, but sadly it doesn't surprise me. The police are dysfunctional and Harry Miller's case highlights this.

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BovaryX · 15/02/2020 07:42

I can believe it. My neighbours were burgled. They called the police while the burglars were in the house. They have a 1 year old. The police didn't even come round and it took forever to get a crime number. Meanwhile, PC Gul is telling people to "check their thinking" and valuable resources are being used on this

HandsOffmyLangClegg
I agree. It's absolutely insane. The collapse of confidence in the police is a serious issue and the upper echelons of the police should stop pandering to Stonewall and do something to address this issue.

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HandsOffMyLangCleg · 15/02/2020 07:38

I can believe it. My neighbours were burgled. They called the police while the burglars were in the house. They have a 1 year old.

The police didn't even come round and it took forever to get a crime number.

Meanwhile, PC Gul is telling people to "check their thinking" and valuable resources are being used on this.

Lojoh That really is awful.

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 15/02/2020 07:37

Unless you are black, and then they take a very different line. I work in HE and the number of young black male students who have been stopped harassed by police for simply walking down a street and going about their business is really distressing....

Languishingfemale · 15/02/2020 07:36

When hundreds of thousands of people have their burglaries and car theft cases dismissed with just an email, of course people lose confidence. Then they see the Police spending ££££ on defending the indefensible PC Gul and chasing women like Posie up and down the country, of course they realise that the police are not interested in protecting the public.

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 15/02/2020 07:29

1 in 9, gosh that is really low.

I don't think the police would try to solve a crime against me so I can believe it.

Catting · 15/02/2020 07:23

I have been in the position of having the police in my home, because my ex friend lied and used them to harass me.
They didn't even listen to me, they tried to get me to inadvertently admit to 'crimes'.

It's only my nature as a huge fucking cynic that kept me from getting into trouble. They were sneaky, and massively overstepped their remit.

So yeah, I don't just have a low opinion of their motives, I think they are actively a menace.

NonnyMouse1337 · 15/02/2020 07:19

That is awful Lojoh. I'm so sorry your husband has not been able to find justice. I'm so baffled that the police wouldn't bother pursuing a fairly open and shut case if all the evidence was available!

Lojoh · 15/02/2020 07:03

A few years ago, someone hit and ran, knocking my DH across the road outside our house. He was in his wheelchair (no bones broken, just his teeth knocked out and his neck injured, which has had some long term effects as he's got an incomplete c-spine SCI). The police came round once, then called on the owner of the car -- it was on CCTV and DH got a partial description so they easily discovered the perpetrator. The driver said they didn't do it. The police did... absolutely nothing. They never followed it up at all. No further investigation. Apparently all you need to do is just say you didn't do something and that's that. There was paint chipped off the wheelchair so there must have been on the car, too. Also... CCTV...

You can basically do what you like in this country. The police are not bothered. Apparently they are all on twitter. I would have thought the kind of person that could knock a person in a wheelchair across a road and then casually drive off might be worth keeping an eye on - but no - the big risk is limericks.

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