Have Police just given up on crime?

A shoplifter with more than 50 previous convictions has become the first thief to be successfully prosecuted by a private police force after overstretched police officers refused to arrest him and let him go….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/18/shoplifter-becomes-first-thief-prosecuted-private-police-force/https://www.standard.co.uk/my-local-bobby-meet-the-brave-new-world-of-elite-law-enforcement-a3507166.html