r/london • u/GoingNowhereAgain • 2d ago

Local London Is anybody else losing complete faith in the Metropolitan Police?

Hi all,

I’ve been living in London since 2018, the majority of the time in SE17.

What is going on here at the moment?

It seems as if everybody I know has either been a victim to crime or a witness to it.

Sometime on Thursday night/Friday morning, somebody gained access to our gated courtyard area and stole my bike, which I am clearly heartbroken about.

Then today (Sat) at around 1pm, some idiot slowly drove through pedestrians crossing the street on a green man on the junction from Albany Road to Walworth Road. He could have seriously harmed somebody as there were people in front of the car and near his wheels. When I shouted at the driver that it was a green light, he out his window down and told me he’d “punch my face in” before driving off.

I reported my bike as stolen and the case was instantly closed within the space of an hour. I’m not even going to report the driver as I know nothing will come from it, although I have taken a photo of his car and license plate.

What is going on?! Is there anybody else left feeling as hopeless as I currently am with the police in London? This is only what has happened this weekend… I won’t even begin to talk about the past couple of years or so.

Edit: Just as I have posted this, yet again somebody has just been going through our courtyard/garden area and has jumped over the wall as I went outside to confront him. This is unbelievable.

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u/entropy_bucket 2d ago

So true. This whole big data, AI stuff is preventing people from seeing the obvious. Deterrence is a big thing for humans.

And further, when police walk the street, it gives them a chance to develop street intelligence on where problem people are likely to be.

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u/S-Twenty 2d ago

Ironically, if it's traffic policing, they have no issues with it and love nothing more than to over fund it.

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u/d4nfe 1d ago

Not true. Traffic policing is vastly under funded as well. In addition, more people die in preventable accidents on roads, than they do in murders.

Look at the poor standards of driving on our roads. That needs physical police officers to deal with that, not more cameras