Worrying electoral turnout

So the voter turnout in North Yorkshire was 13%.  That’s scary!  I know that these elections may not have been the sexiest ever but the issue of who runs our police force is a really important one; especially in the days of drastic government cuts to the force.  I am sure people will be quick to complain when the police can’t respond quickly enough to 999 calls or when the, already limited, police presence on our streets is cut further.  Yet they didn’t go out to vote.  Maybe this was a political protest about the cost of these elections and the frustration felt with what many feel to be change-for-change’s-sake.  I wish I could believe that it was.  I always feel that, as a woman, I have a responsibility to use my vote, even if it means spoiling my ballot; women died so I could, the least I can do is drag myself to the polls.  Clearly other people don’t feel the same.  On a fundamental issue of the running of the police force though, surely it was worth the ten minutes out of people’s day to vote.   What does it say about the feeling we have as a nation towards politics when turnout is so low?  Are we really so disillusioned with the government that 87% of us didn't make the effort? Answers on a postcard please....