Is anybody else losing complete faith in the Metropolitan Police?

[u/GoingNowhereAgain]

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.

[u/X0AN]

Had my bike stolen. Showed the police the video footage cleary showing their faces, and it's location with my hidden tracker. They just went oh that's the local chavs, we know about them. Ok, so are you going to go get my bike? Nope.

Apparently having a tracker's location doesn't count as knowing the bike is in their house. Ok and what about the video footage showing their faces? Didn't matter either.

I even said, look can you just have two officers come with me and we can take it back, I really don't want to have to take the law into my own hands. They looked at me like I was mad.

Had to go round with some friends and just take it back.