mmarsh
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That's true enough. I don't know the answers to this problem. My assumption is strictly off of how things tend to work here in the states and that would be excessively political and the officer's hand being tied due to same. I highly doubt the entire dept is full of lazy bums suckin down donuts all day.
The problem in the UK is that that the police are hamstrung by civil laws and their own bureaucracy. There is a shortage of cops, of training, of equipment and especially the armed intervention police as local constables don't carry firearms. Factor this and the bewildering jungle of red tape British police must cut threw to make an arrest.
But as MontyB said its a problem with English Law Enforcement, its a problem that the British have been struggling with for 2 decades. Adding armed civilians solve things themselves only would make the problem worse.
I am surprised few Americans recall a time in our History called the "Wild West". Were true Government Law enforcement was law almost non-exsistant and people solving problems with shootouts, mob lynchings and other acts of civilans acting as their own law enforcement agent. Not exactly the most civilized era in our history so why on earth would anyone want to go back to it?