Back in January, the UK announced that police were no longer able to investigate "trivial" crimes such as home invasion and assault. According to the UK Telegraph, police have apparently been keeping that promise.

A chief Constable admitted yesterday that his officers are being forced to ignore thousands of burglaries, thefts and car crimes because they are swamped by increasing drug and gun violence.

The public's perception that the police were not interested in low-level and non-violent crime was underlined when Steve Green, Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire police, said there was not enough money or officers available to investigate all crime.

Interesting that burglary is considered a "low-level" crime. More interesting is that a country that bans guns and drugs has such a problem with them. Rather than admit that their gun ban isn't working, they are blaming it on lack of law enforcement resources. A quick check of my socialist-to-capitalist dictionary shows that translates into the desire to raise taxes.