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That's what you and the CPS are paid for.
One reason that people are losing respect for the police is that officers are not properly responding to offences such as this. You may see them as 'low level' but they cause injury to many people - and often significant injury.
There is clear evidence that actually paying attention to offences such as these, and dealing robustly with them, both leads to a reduction in more serious offences (as people don't go on to do worse as they've 'got away with' minor offences) and to an improvement in public satisfaction with policing.
As someone who is usually very supportive of the police (as many on here will tell you) I find your rather patronising and confrontational attitude (as that is how you are coming across) rather unhelpful. When my friends in the job next moan that the public don't seem to respect or understand them, perhaps I'll just point them in the direction of your postings, so that they get a glimpse of the reasons why....
An excellent post, User. I know we have differing perspectives on the Police, but on this we can agree.