A Fall In Recorded Crime

The Metropolitan Police sex crimes unit 'Sapphire' refused to take action over reported rapes. Tough cases make poor detection rates so women were encouraged to withdraw their allegations.
It must be difficult and distressing enough for rape victims to make a complaint in the first place. Yet the Met routinely trashed distraught women, made them out to be liars and recorded their shattering experience as ‘no crime’.
Only a few weeks ago the Office for National Statistics reported that the Police have been exaggerating the fall in crime by the simple expedient of not recording crime when it occurs.
It appears that the Police have been regularly dismissing crimes against the person, such as harassment and anti social behaviour. It seems violent crime is frequently ignored by our tick box happy police.
Indeed, I was told by Victim Support of a case in a nearby town where a taxi driver had been attacked and put in hospital by a customer. The Police refused to take action against the thug!
Too many Police Officers, maybe most of them, are more concerned with their own benefit than yours or mine.
Judging by the ONS survey of  40,000 households, over the past five years the police recorded 400,000 fewer crimes than were reported.
Your humble peasant can only report that his own experience bears this out.
It is with great reluctance that I contact the forces of Authority, or indeed any government official, but when some yobs menaced me a couple of years back, I decided to call the police. The alternative was to sort them out myself, or do nothing and get sorted out by them at a later date.
The sensible option seemed to be to let the police know what was going on.
The policeman I spoke to suggested that I might not want to make a complaint lest I ‘antagonize’ the thugs.
I pointed out to him that it was his job to make sure they did not antagonize me!
With great reluctance the Police did something, as little as they possibly could.
Clearly each new police inspector is under pressure to record a fall in crime.
What easier method is there than not recording crime at all?
The Police are acting not as public servants but as self servants.
Like in the town halls, the hospitals, the Revenues and Customs, the Social Services, the Schools, all areas of the Civil Service, there are millions of so called public servants who will serve you only if it suits them, and are quite happy to screw you if it is to their benefit.
And if you are put in physical danger, if you have to die to free up a bed, if you lose your money or your property, if your children are snatched, if they are not taught reading and writing and arithmetic, millions of public servants don’t care.
They tick the boxes, they get promotion, a pay rise and a pension and to hell with you and me.