There is a declining attitude towards law and order because the 'law makers' are the worst criminals in history - i have no respect for them, nor the instituations they portray to lead.
For example, trumps latest rants on twitter often involve the tweet 'law & order!!!!' - it is the cry of the oppressor, it was used by hitler, its being used by trump, these days 'law and order' is simply the dictators message for - do as your told or you will be unjustly punished.
America is currently bundling innocent people away in unmarked vans by unmarked police & organised gov appointed thugs, its also got concentration camps sterilising humans against their will.
Of course, the UK isn't quite there yet - but with a bumbling idiot at the helm who is a huge human rights abuser (as is mostly the torys), they would absolutely love to follow America's example, hyper capatalists of the UK would always try to follow the worlds leading captalist regime.
The UK has gone in to free fall in the past 5 years and now corona and brexit will accelerate plans that attack human society. All this societal control that covid has introduced, I doubt it will just go away once its dealt with - once somethings gone 'over the line' as far as law making goes, its hard to go back on it, for example brexit is clearly madness - so far the UK has lost more money than it ever gave the EU in the past 47 years - all that wasted money could have fed the entire country for a year, we all could have ate for free, for a year......, it makes total sense to reverse it - but doing so is incredibly hard for some reason, reality always comes second to emotional kicking and screaming of 'i want my brexit' - even though its already done more harm than anything else in the last half century.
Anyways, because of all this complete **** show, its little wonder more and more people have zero regard for gov, and in turn everything else that trickles down from westminster.
Do I have respect for individual police on the street? Sure, some of them, some/most really want to help, but its on a case by case basis...................american cops however can all go to hell, what they are doing to innocent people they are meant to be on the side of, is horrendous - I have yet to see the good cops of the usa put a complete end to it, not even a hint of progress.