Though I don’t know where you live, I’d be surprised if your police were actually underfunded. More likely the funds are wildly mismanaged and spent on garbage like crowd control weaponry, fear-mongering “everyone is an active enemy combatant”-style training, or straight up APCs.
Though I don’t know where you live, I’d be surprised if your police were actually underfunded. More likely the funds are wildly mismanaged and spent on garbage like crowd control weaponry, fear-mongering “everyone is an active enemy combatant”-style training, or straight up APCs.
They had real terms funding cuts for almost a decade as part of our Conservatives holy mantra of “austerity”.
Our police are awful, but for different reasons to America
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-police-officer-jailed-32-years-49-sexual-offence-charges-2023-02-07/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/21/ex-met-police-officer-convicted-of-multiple-counts-of
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-65794011
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67650961
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sarah_Everard