[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by nomadking

Let's suppose for the sake of your ridiculous argument, that they on ONE instance(and it's very unlikely to be more than that) they can be in the right place at the right time, any attack will simply take place at another place and time.


Hate to break it to you, but potential criminals are not sitting at home waiting for the latest figures on Police numbers before deciding whether to go out and commit crime.


Diane Abbott sent her son away in 2003, and Trevor Phillips said there was a big problem with knife crime 12 years ago.
Link from 2017

They then go on to have lots of kids who in turn eventually add to the numbers.

Your hypothesis would be right apart from your basing it on the criminals constantly knowing the deployment status and location of officers. Which of course they don’t a great deal of the time.

If you don’t get that a higher amount of officers on the ground coupled with the increase in stop and search would lead to a reduction on current levels of offences then I don’t know what else to say to you