Signs of 2017: public squeeze

What does 2017 hold? One way of looking at it; more of the same. One trend for years now has been the squeeze on public policing and other public services.
Between 2010 and 2015 the police grant was cut by 20 per cent by the Government, as the new Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan pointed out in his first crime plan.
What the draft crime plan for London 2017-21 described as ‘severe and ongoing pressure on the Met Police budget and on the wider public sector in London’ has meant that