In reply to trouserburp:
> in which case show me some reason to think otherwise
I reported an incident where a car full of yobs drove at me, shouting and jeering.
I stopped, got off the bike and called the police. Yobs stopped the car and driver got out and came towards me, doing the 'you got a problem' routine. I told him to go away.
An officer came to my place of work the next day, took a statement, and said they'd be issuing an s.59 notice to the vehicle holder. He encouraged me to report such behaviour in future, and to encourage everyone I knew to do so. His last words were something along the lines of "you shouldn't have to put up with that, and we won't stand for it".
Seemed a pretty fair response. That was before the worst of 'austerity', though...