//I just don’t understand why the police stand idly by watching them hold up thoroughfares.//
Well they have lost any pride that was in their profession. They are supervised by managers ,not, police officers who have gone through the ranks. They can't be arrised to turn up for crimes but advise victims to report to insurance companies. They are puppets for the crime commissars who instruct them to rush to alleged hate crimes and ignore real crime. Knife crime rises but they are severely restricted to stop and search. They are not allowed to use basic common sense and intuition known as 'gut feeling' . They are totally demoralised by their own supervisors and happy to turn up just to get paid. They have no pride in their so-called uniform and it would appear, apart from certain units, display no self discipline. I recall the Commandant of Hendon Driving School would suspend any police driver he saw without his cap on from driving duties. Now they walk into premises for some reason hatless and out of uniform as if they think they are one of you and all lads together. I have even seen a local officer not properly in uniform, hatless, directing traffic in the middle of the road at an incident. Why would any driver obey the directions of what looked like a demented escapee from the local psychiatric unit.