To Defund or Not to Defund?

It would be interesting to know what they were deployed to do tough. My hunch is they were doing far less roles so were more visible/community located. So having less of them is fine.

An example of my views changing - why do two Police Officers (usually) pop round for a cup of tea when you are burgled? From my experience, they can't do an awful lot of visible prevention after the fact, or protect me at that point by intercepting the scallywag. The only thing left is catching them, which they don't really need to be having my tea to achieve. Maybe a specialist in forensics if that is required (depends on the extent I guess) and maybe some sort of security expert to review the house for weak entry points/risks, but not a Police Officer. Now, if they were in the Community and checking in every so often, letting me know what's going on in the area, keeping a presence, I can see that being much more worthy of my tea stash.