DaedalusHKX's Journal: 80% Crimes unsolved in London, despite CCTV ubiquity... odd?

Regardless of all the cameras, safety, and crime prevention are still the domain of potential victims, not the troops, troopers, cops, ninja masked, body armored thugs, or any other agent of the state... your safety is still YOUR problem... surprise.

London has a 20% crime "clearup" rate. Strange how when they depend on tax money, "authorities" never deliver what they promise, but continue to scream that they cannot deliver because they don't get "enough funding".

Each year their budget matches or increases, their spending is increased, they buy more cameras, more tazers, more guns, but show to possess less and less civil skills (something necessary in any civil "peace officer" especially one given the monopoly on force that today's "society" grants to its "police" forces).

People don't trust cops anymore, and those who still make the mistake to do so put themselves at more risk than those that don't. And for good reason. In older times, a man who took your money and didn't even deliver a pretense of a fair trade, and who claimed he needed yet more money to keep not delivering... was called a QUACK!! Today they're called "politicians", "civil engineers", "city planners", "authorities" or "lawmakers".