When the coalition came to power, a few targets remained within the policing pledge - promises to treat people with dignity and respect, to be efficient inanswering calls, to spend more time on the beat - but even these have now been ditched.
Perhaps the more important question, which like all questions most worth answering is at its heart a philosophical one, is at what point intime Blackstone (or Apollo or KKR) ceases to be a private equity firm at its heart, and becomes some other form financial or investment enterprise.