The police have become what so many public bodies become. Something that exists to give them a job with as much money for doing as little as possible,along with a generous pension. The service to the public that they were created for is no longer the priority. Hence things that make peoples lives a sheer misery like antisocial behavior, drunkeness, burglary, pick pocketing etc is no longer something they can be bothered with. The public who live in areas where this is a constant part of their life no longer have anywhere to turn. Labour made the whole thing worse with their rabid PC & heaps of paperwork, which means the real police work is largely done on overtime rates, & coppers are more interested in arresting people for what they say than if they have committed a crime, or easy targets like motorists. They need a bloody good shake up, get off their arses & out of their pandas & do some keeping of law & order, which is what they are paid so handsomely for.
