If police aren’t investigating crime, what exactly are they doing?

[MyAmusedOpalCrab]

I keep seeing reports about police forces being stretched, backlogs of cases, and victims being told their crimes won’t be investigated. At the same time, we hear about officers spending time on things like social media monitoring, diversity training, or non-crime “interventions.”

Obviously, some of this is necessary but if solving actual crimes isn’t the priority, then what is? What exactly are they being paid to do if not investigate crime?

AIBU to think policing has lost its way? Or am I missing something?

misgender someone and they will be round in a flash🙄

Yesterday, they were dealing with a domestic violence incident and a related stolen car, which they then found being driven by the DV perpetrator. Car has been returned to the rightful owner.

Today they’re doing guarding of a prisoner in hospital, which is approximately an hour from the (shared with council workers) station, then driving back to the station and completing the related paperwork and handover. This will take about an hour and a half, meaning for the 4th time in 4 days this week, they will be home over 2 hours late. Also, there is no custody suite because it was sold off in their area as was the one in the nearest big town, so anytime they arrest anyone, they have to travel over 30 minutes. This cannot be single crewed, obviously. If that custody suite is full, it’s an hour to the next one.

#defundthepolice eh?

I enjoyed a meme once where calls from anyone who had used this tag in their socials were directed to the unicorn and sparkles department

We need a like button. 👍