People on the street: Trust in the police

We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the erosion of trust in th police and how it can be fixed.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to People on the Street. I'm Thiogby Smith and today I'm out in Manchester

00:04asking people about the police. And that's because a recent YouGov survey has shown that 52% of

00:08people no longer trust them. So we want to ask today what the police could do to earn back the

00:14public's trust. If there's any little changes they could make or something more sweeping.

00:17The police I've encountered have been quite nice.

00:20Like social media puts a light on everything they've been getting away with now so they

00:24can't really get away with it no more. That's kind of what's broken the trust for a minute.

00:28I've not been in situations like that to have a say whether I trust them or not.

00:33However from a broader scale as a person of colour

00:36obviously there's going to be a little bit of worry in the system in general.

00:40Trust them again. Trust one of those things that's hard to build once you lose it innit.

00:45I feel like if you're going to be a policeman or like a security guard you're either doing

00:48it for the right reasons where you want to help people and you want to protect people

00:51or you're just on a power trip.

00:53It's a human nature.

00:55Which is a sad fact because when they do their job it's overlooked even though it shouldn't be.