I think, in some places, the police have been busy dealing with other fallout from CoVid-19 and haven’t had the resources on the ground. People have got away with certain things that wouldn’t normally have been tolerated because there hasn’t been the active policing to pull them up. Having not been pulled up the behaviour becomes normalised.
It’s a bit of a systematic problem. I know, around here, we have had a substantial increase in dangerous driving post lockdown. Some of these people also treated isolation as an opportunity to take the legal exhaust system and catalytic converters off their cars and replace them with illegal, loud, aftermarket systems. They bring these cars out after dark and race them around our roads.
Several people I speak with have noticed these cars but it’s hard to get action. They often have different plates front and rear, no plates, obscured plates or stolen plates so even when a car is reported there’s no outcome possible. The police haven’t needed to do “patrols” in some areas in recent years but I think more visible policing might be needed for a while to get the situation back under control.
