It can't be healthy to be this obsessed.
Lol, you should talk. I would think that the ACAB guy, more than anybody else, would be offended at the cops doing feats of performative virtue signaling to "woke-wash" their shitty image. I would think that the ACAB guy, more than anybody else, would be offended by the blatantly illegal misuse of police resources to harass people for their social media posts. Must be a real moral quandry for you.
It's also strange to blame neoliberal austerity measures on police's inability or unwillingness to investigate crimes against women when you see the same thing in other places where the cops haven't lost any funding. IIRC the Globe and Mail did a whole series on how Canadian police agencies DGAF about sexual assault cases.
Police funding isn't the only issue, and probably not even the biggest one. Articles on the topic I saw last week indicated that while r*pe prosecutions in England and Wales had plummeted over the past few years, they've actually increased in Scotland.
Lots of places (Canada, England, the US) are probably grappling with similar issues in the court system. Our courts are clogged, it takes too long to bring cases to trial, prosecutors don't have time or resources to spend on all the cases being brought to them, and they focus their efforts on the cases with the best chance of convictions. Lots of cases get pleaded out or just plain dismiss. Nazir Afzal, who is a big name in UK legal circles-- we talked about him a lot during the Rotherham scandal thread-- said "r*pe cases are the hardest to prosecute, but this just looks like giving up" in reference to the plunge in prosecutions. I also saw a claim that the Crown Prosecution Service has put an organizational focus on increased winning percentages, and that's another reason why they bring only the strongest r*pe cases to trial. And, that police are less likely to spend their own resources doing much investigation on cases they think the CPS is just going to dismiss anyway.
-k
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