Not coincidentally, we saw massive cuts to the policing and criminal justice budgets in the years after 2010. Prisons are 99% full, the prosecution and probation services are overwhelmed, there's a two-year backlog of court cases and thousands of experienced police officers were replaced with cheaper new recruits.

It would be an exaggeration to say that Britain has descended into lawlessness, but not a vast exaggeration. A great deal of crime is simply being ignored, because there aren't the resources in the system to investigate or prosecute it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg5vp0296eo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60071691