Arthur, how ever did we get by without the extra police officers?
Oh yeah, they were actually on the beat instead of doing mounds of paperwork and community relations.
Perhaps if the police actually
followed the Home Secretary's request to stop following targets and, you know, police, there would be no issues.
The police are getting defensive, they have had all this extra resources thrown at them, been given loads of paperwork to do and now there's an entire army of desk jockeys who are worried they'll lose their nice cushy jobs sitting on their arses and either have to do real police work again or be made redundant.
The prophecies of doom are a symptom of this, same as every other organisation that's inefficient and facing cuts.
Either way you're naive to believe this. We weren't a lawless state where criminals roamed the streets raping and pillaging before Labour hired a load of police then packed them away in offices and won't be one after those in the offices are removed.