UK decriminalizes bicycle theft
(www.bbc.com)
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They have time to arrest people for tweets. I guess they think that comments on the internet are more harmful than actual theft of physical property?
This simple fact proves ANY complaints about British police staffing, funding, or time constraints to be utterly false. They got time to send 4 cops to harass a cancer patient for posting rap lyrics, then clearly there is no other crimes even potentially occurring in their district, not even speeding or jaywalking.
Theft of private property doesn't endanger the stranglehold the government has over the country. 'Hate' speech does.
Correct. This is also why vigilantism is the worst possible crime in the eyes of the state - far worse than rape or murder - because it threatens the state’s monopoly on violence.
It's even more retarded than that. A large chunk of crimes are committed by a relatively small handful of very prolific serial offenders. Catching and jailing the people committing the bike thefts would almost certainly also cause a drop in all those "more serious crimes" they claim to be patrolling for. Even if you took their workload excuse at face value, they'd still be using the workload as an excuse to not do things that would decrease the workload.