When are we going to realise the current criminal justice system is not appropriate for level of increase of crime or violence now witnessed.
Has the level of violent crime risen?
If so in comparison to when?
Just because you are hearing more about crime doesn't mean it's suddenly at it's worst.
Going back 25 odd years I remember the absolute hysteria about children being abducted by strangers and how we needed much harsher laws to deal with it, and IIRC it turned out child abduction by strangers was at one of the lowest points in 50 years, it's just that 24 hour news had recently become a major thing in the UK and there were a couple of cases in relatively quick succession (and another where it turned out the mum had hidden her daughter under a bed at a friends house to try and get some money from the public and for the story).
I will give you that the system needs some reform, or rather we need a lot more police to actually investigate crimes, and the various court rooms that the government shut down re-opened along with reinstating the magistrates that were done away with* so that the actual time between say a criminal being arrested with evidence and the case going through the court successfully is shorter - the fact that rapes are now taking years to reach court isn't a failing of the police, the judges, the lawyers or the CPS, it's because the government has absolutely gutted the justice system and left it in a state where there aren't enough people to actually do the jobs especially in regards to the actual court proceedings.
Add in little things like the government closing prisons and not building replacements...
*IIRC there used to be a magistrates court in pretty much every town, the government did away with most of the smaller ones (and the smaller police stations) in the name of "efficiency", where efficiency means that everyone involved now has to travel, often for an hour plus to do a 5 minute hearing.