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Cutting the amount of police per person from 1 per 1000 to 1 per 10,000 under conservative rule did a lot of damage.

>>Xss3+(OP)
Yeah, for sure. In NZ I used to see cops on the beat, just walking around and showing a presence. It also means that people see them as there to help out.

You can kinda see that in some parts of the UK still, but certainly lack of staff really affects them; particularly when UK seems to have higher incidences of more violent crimes, more drug related crimes, etc. Turkish gangs shooting little girls in the middle of London.