Welcome to the UK in 2021.
Those who break the law are pussyfooted around, in order to not offend or contravene their Human Rights. Whilst those who uphold it are treated with distain by the Police.
Is it any wonder the majority have had enough?
I shed no tears for The Police, in particular the Met. Many of their problems are of their own making, plus the calibre of some of the people they employ/promote.
For example:
Back in 2013 myself and a mate witnessed someone being bottled outside a pub in New Cross. When the Police arrived my mate went over to the Inspector to try and explain what had happened. Instead this Inspector pulled his hair and tackled him to the ground and put a knee in his back. When I went over and told the Inspector he was highly out of order, I was threatened with arrest.
At this point I was rather angry and said to him, 'go ahead', but rest assured his Chief Constable would have been hearing more about the incident, plus the media too.
Of the Inspectors female colleagues who witnessed the incident pulled me away and basically implied (without compromising herself) that the Inspector had been out of order. She then proceeded to take my statement regarding the incident.
My mate received NO apology from the Inspector for being wrongly thrown about and manhandled as a mere witness to the incident.
So please don't expect me to have any sympathy for The Met, as I really don't have any.
I’m sorry about what happened to you and your friend 8 years ago. Did you catch the inspector’s name - I wonder if he’s still in the Met or has burned out / retired since then?
I merely outlined the reasons why the Met aren’t turning up mobhanded to sweep up retired teachers and GPs being twats at slip roads.
Let me clue you in to a little secret: the police aren’t run for the benefit of the public. Or the government, funnily enough (well excepting the upper echelons, who are desperate for a knighthood or other title and would sell their mothers trying to get it).
The police is run for the benefit of a few handfuls of ultra-ambitious senior officers desperate to climb the ranks to commissioner.
When a new superintendent or police commander etc. comes in, they try to do all sorts of tricks and shit budget management to give the illusion they are saving money (hiring freezes, forcing out experienced officers and specialists leaving dregs and burnouts etc), bringing in “new IT infrastructure” (usually via a relative‘s or in-law’s IT company) while making high profile arrests. They will try and sit on anything negative and refuse to deal with internal problems in case it may slow their career progression. Ask Cressida Dick and remember that the guys gunning for her job internally are perched upon their own personal rickety shitpiles.
The tears that should be shed is for all the crime victims who are being shoved online for reporting offences, unlikely to even be spoken to by a police officer. Let alone those who have suffered greatly in the tailbacks caused by Extinction Rebellion.
The only victims of a poorly funded and poorly run police force is the public including you - not twats like that inspector you saw douching it up.
now they can arrest them before a crime has been committed but for the last few years they have said that they couldn't make arrests until a crime was committed 
