jmdrake
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Well, I'm not going to argue the point, I'll cede your point that having just plain beat cops patrolling would reduce crime.
But by your own words they also have to play the role of hard ass as well.
Again, assuming society must have them, and if you must have them they should perform the job as required.
My ideal "high trust" society would have almost no need for them at all.
Oh I fully agree. Remember some months ago there was a thread where a town ended up getting rid of their police force altogether? You were concerend about that but I pointed out that town already had a low crime rate and probably didn't need a police force anyway?
There's no police force where I live. Yeah there's a county sheriff's office. We've sometimes called them when people were illegally hunting on our property. (They were white. Not Haitian. And no ducks or geese were harmed). But even that wasn't really necessary. I heard a gunshot once at the end of my driveway and saw these three guys putting a deer in their trunk. I rolled down my window and said "You know it's not even hunting season yet right?" Their response was "It was hit by a car." Year right.
It was still kicking while they put it in the trunk. I didn't bother calling the sherriff that time nor did I bother following them because I knew they had gun and I didn't. There are also some thieves in the area. We used to be able to leave our keys in the ignition of the car. But recently we've had a log splitter and a riding lawnower stolen. But I digress. I generally feel safe. Mostly the sherriff's deputies stop people from speeding....which I find irritating because I tend to drive fast. A local deputy did help my dad out before I moved back down here and my mom was still alive. Some jackass secret service agent out of D.C. pulled a gun on my dad because my dad supposedly fit the description of a counterfeiter he was looking for. My dad was unarmed and in his late 70s at the time. I called one of the local commuinty leaders my mom had grown up with, he called the sheriff, and within a couple of weeks that fed was fired. That's my best experience with law enforcement ever. Oh and the community leader and the sheriff were both white. Just pointing that out because people get the impression that southern law enforcement is racist against black people and here was a southern sheriff helping a black man against northern aggression. Go figure?