#130 - Peter Bleksley - The Government Has Surrendered the Streets

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Peter Bleksley is a former undercover detective, crime author and one of Britain's most outspoken critics of modern policing.

In this conversation, we unpack why trust has collapsed, crime has surged and what it will really take to fix British policing.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:06:00 – Visible, Known, Trusted Policing
00:09:45 – Why No One Reports Crime
00:13:20 – How Bureaucracy Killed Policing
00:17:30 – Police Abandoned the Frontline
00:20:30 – Shoplifting, Drugs & Public Fear
00:26:00 – Women on the Frontline Debate
00:31:00 – Taser Policy, Safety & Reality
00:35:00 – Bureaucracy vs Evidence Gathering
00:40:00 – Informants, Surveillance & Undercover Work
00:45:20 – Why the PCC System Failed
00:50:00 – Sentencing, Prisons & Rehabilitation
00:55:00 – What's Wrong With Young Men?
01:00:00 – Outsourcing, Work Ethic & Minimum Wage
01:05:00 – Softness, Victimhood & State Expansion
01:10:00 – Indoctrination, Education & Marxism
01:15:00 – Immigration, Integration & Crime Concerns
01:20:00 – Political Class Is Failing Britain
01:25:00 – When Was Britain Last Better?
01:30:00 – What Would Fix Policing?
01:35:00 – Final Thoughts
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0:00.0	I have a huge amount of respect for those cops on the front line.
0:03.0	They do some brilliant work.
0:05.0	But by and large, they're not out on the streets patrolling.
0:09.0	The police will tell you they don't have the resources to do that.
0:12.0	And what we've got is the streets being surrendered and this plague of crime,
0:16.0	knife crime runs rampant, car crime, vehicle crime, all of that, that is making this place a worse place to live.
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1:12.9	Very well, thank you. I am, I'm very, I'm very much like I've ordered to this. I want to talk to you about
1:18.8	policing in this country because like a lot of other things, I'm worried about it. Are we in a crisis?
1:25.8	Oh, completely. Policing per se is in a crisis.
1:29.8	That's what I mean.
1:30.5	In so many regards.
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