Public feel police cannot protect them adequately
Recent findings by Sky Data reveal that 86% of people do not think police have enough funding to deal with current crime levels effectively. The majority of Britons feel less safe, with almost 90% saying that funding cuts mean police cannot do their job. Some 51% of people feel less safe from crime than they did a few years ago, and 34% saying there has been no change. Meanwhile, 80% think the police have become less able to protect people over the last few years, with 48% saying they have become much less effective in protecting people from criminals. Similarly, 83% of people think there is more crime happening now than a few years ago, with 48% saying there is much more. Blame is being attributed to police funding cuts, as 86% do not think the police have sufficient funding to deal effectively with current crime levels, and 62% saying they do not have nearly enough. More than 20,000 police jobs have been cut in England and Wales since 2010, with government funding...