Got spat on twice now. London has become horrendous for women

It's not that there isn't a will to do anything about it (people are trying), but not only were police force numbers and budgets cut in droves over years of Tory "austerity", but there's been an even greater mass exodus lately of people leaving the police now ( https://www.polfed.org/westmids/news-and-events/2023/officers-leaving-police-service-in-record-numbers/ ) thanks to the highly stressful, under-trained and under-paid environments that those long-term austerity measures generated.

And this is not to mention the constant media hatred the police get for the bad eggs in the force like Wayne Couzens or Cliff Mitchell. The police perform absolutely vital services in the city but for every 1000 officers doing a good job, their reputation is completely undone by the occasional criminal or psychopath who gets into the system (which thanks to budget cuts, is also not well-equipped to root out). And lets face it; when do we ever hear about the good cops? They exist in droves, but we never hear about them because good news doesn't make content or generate clicks, which then not only feeds into public animosity towards the MET but also makes the officers serving under it feel hated no matter how hard they try to do a good job.

Honestly, why would anyone want to become a cop these days? There's little-to-no sense of making fundamental differences to society or being rewarded for exceptional work when the politicians are working so much against the people of the country. And working conditions like this when you have to constantly deal with the worst & most difficult members of society every day only fosters environments where good officers become jaded, average or bad ones (or leave altogether) and lousy & unscrupulous ones are encouraged.

One of my unironic favorite parts of the internet is watching British progressives use American rightoid arguments in favor of the police because it lets them try to dunk on the Tories.

You can legit see some leftoid subreddits instantly pivot from "more police can't prevent crime lmao" to "of course there's more crime when there's less police lmao" the second they can blame the less police on the rightoids.