Lets have a flameout...

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Originally Posted by daved

Cant comment on your local situation but i can assure you all decent cops ( and there are lazy crap ones out there..........bin them) carry a massive work load. Less of them means theres no capacity to take up the jobs left over. That includes prevention as well as response.

You are correct I can only conclude that the impact on Joe & Jo Public will be more impact from crime

One thing this govt are also overlooking is the broken window syndrome.

Its based on a well observed hypothesis that once an empty building gets a broken window and it doesnt get fixed it will attract more damage and soon become trashed. It attracts it.

The same applies to areas of crime and crime patterns. It also applies to everything else in public life from the state of the parks to the number of times your wheelie bin gets emptied.

Its a slippery slope.

personally i have little sympathy for the fire brigade when they have there seems to be annual strike over pay. especially as they are paid often not to work ,
the police you never really hear complain , and the nurses seem to have been quiet for a while, id not be too bothered or sympathetic to them if they did strike over pay...

but

reducing numbers, redundancies etc, i do sympathise with . it effects us and if we needed 50 coppers before we sure as hell will need 50 as times get tighter just looking at the social problems we are facing

but if you think about it our country is at war and we are . our country is under constant threat of terror attacks

scrapping aircraft carriers
redundancies in the armed forces
redundancies in police , health care
and god knows what else they have done or plan to

i just dont get it. talk about inviting trouble