it seems that Liverpool pollce would rather take out the easy targets than do some Detective work a take out the drug dealers and armed gangs that blight our neighbour hoods, if you have 20 knocking shops with known addresses and 20 drug dealers that are using 11 year old kids on bikes to do deliveries how are u going to follow them to the main dealers but on average you have reduced crime by 50% if u take down 20 knocking shops, it then drives that undergoround