The prisons are full of people with poor impulse control and a lack of foresight. - Ben Aaronovitch

“They’re all so ridiculously young,” said Nightingale.
“They” were mostly Police Staff, what we’re not supposed to call civilian workers any more—analysts and data entry specialists—who’d got the boot when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London needed was a smaller police force.

I’ll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It’s easy to mistake the two.

The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying, or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable. It has a tendency to undermine public faith in the forces of Law and is deleterious to public order.