I’m quite surprised at the lenghts the police seem to have gone to in arresting people involved in trouble between Man City and United, the man in the street these days just seems to get given a crime number if something happens to them. High profile shows of strength and motorists appear to be the order of the day with the police, they are a joke these days.
Senior officers in the police over the last 15yrs or so have been moulded to fit into the succesive government regimes they work for. In other words they have been turned into “spin merchants”.
They have the attitude that it doesn’t matter what you do as long as it looks good on paper, and ticks boxes set by their paymasters.
There can be no doubt that the police should be clamping down on football hooligans and making the roads safer by prosecuting bad drivers but the basics of good Bobbying can’t be measured and therefore are being ignored.
The rank and file Copper is as pished off with whats going on as the general public, but they are shouted down when they raise these points.