Have Londoners lost faith in the police?

We ask the people of London if they’ve lost faith in the police after a recent YouGov survey revealed 52% of people had.

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00:00I mean when we were young, buggers were walking up and down, walking up and down the street,

00:05you know.

00:06They knew your name.

00:07They knew your name.

00:08Not now.

00:09All you see in them is flashing buying cards and that's it.

00:11Is that something that you'd like to see again, like go back to that time, would that make

00:15you feel safe?

00:16Oh flipping, yeah.

00:17You're sounding a bit old-fashioned, aren't we, going back to our time, but in some ways,

00:20in some aspects, it was better and that were better.

00:22Yeah, this kind of thing is quite a difficult question because I think it's very hard to

00:27determine what's done because it's usually done on like a case-by-case basis and I think

00:32everybody would just hope that their case is, you know, handled with care and that's

00:36what the police aim to do, so I think it's just very hard to pinpoint what's been done

00:41unless you look at the full details of the case and then just hope and trust that everybody

00:46can do the best thing they can to reach a solution to said problem.

00:50If bobbies knew your name and they knew where you lived, you don't do anything wrong because

00:54they'd be roamed at your house.