It is no surprise that trust in the police is very low:
They will not intervene when there is obvious public disorder. Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the Colston case, they simply stood by whilst chaos ruled. They did similarly during the anti-vax and anti lockdown Covid demonstrations.
The apparent rights of the wrong doer in this case (drunk, dumped car etc) were allowed to prevail over the rights of the innocent and inconvenienced
The police priority should be to protect the innocent public from wrong doing of others. A failure to do so may arise from:
- a lack of resources to actually enforce the law, or
- a judgement that the consequences of "do nothing" is better than "do something", or
- the rights of the individual exceed the rights and expectations of the community
IMHO none of these are an acceptable explanation.
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