New crime figures have revealed that the police fail to solve 92 per cent of all burglaries, and that mobile phone theft is treated so casually, it has essentially been decriminalised. I worry what happens if British policing drifts even further away from what the public expects it to deliver, says former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal T here is a kind of failure that’s worse than incompetence. It’s the failure that’s become so normal, so accepted, that the people responsible no longer feel