Fortunately, I suppose,
there aren't enough police to respond to all incidents even now. Increasing the number of incidents that the police are expected to respond to would probably have little effect.
Many years ago, before Austerity was a thing and I was a local councilor, I was shown around the council's CCTV facility. The operators showed us some of the local ne'er-do-wells, who were well known by sight to the operators for their frequent dreadful behaviour, and who helpfully gave the camera the finger. It was explained that even when the operators saw people whom they knew had outstanding arrest warrants against them, unless it was a Friday or Saturday night there were usually insufficient police available to do anything about it. So they didn't even bother notifying the police. Austerity is now government policy, and so there are even less police, and in fact the council-funded cameras, and their control centre, have gone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
