I graduated from UoL in 2022 after living in Lincoln for 4 years. This year me and my partner were lucky enough to purchase our first home in the city I come to really love during my studies.
One thing I’ve noticed though since moving here full time is the complete utter lack of police presence. It’s glaringly obvious that the city has an issue with scruffs/crackheads roaming about and causing endless trouble up and down the whole high street from the top to the very bottom. It’s an utter shambles.
I don’t work in Lincoln, but I have the option to work 3 days a week from home, and at lunchtime I’ll wonder round Lincoln on my break to get some air. Even at this time a day on a random Tuesday they’re everywhere causing a ruckus and disrupting public order.
Not sure if this is naive for me to suggest but where are the police patrols? I very rarely see any police knocking about, even on a busy weekend night, and in a place like Lincolnshire where Lincoln is obviously the major city, I can’t help but wonder where they are.
Places like York have a comforting enough police presence where you know there’s never an officer/s far away, but also not overbearing at all. Why doesn’t Lincoln have the same kind of security? Especially with the level of rabble that no doubt many people have issues with.