The Police Can't Protect You-And Have No Duty To

[TWR]

The beat cop was only effective where people respected, liked and trusted the police in general and if you look back at cities like Chicago and NYC their crime rates were actually much higher in that era than they are today.

You just can’t put enough cops out there to make people behave that don’t want to and if you did you’d be living in a police state particularly with the “Us against Them” mentality that LEO’s are hammered into from day one in training.

I get along great with all our local, county, and state cops around here but even though I’m generally a very law abiding citizen the last thing I want is their noses up my pants all the time because they are paid to find violations and write tickets.

[max-webster]

@BadRobot

he Police can protect the people if they go back to how Policing worked many years ago. I think they called them Beat Cops. This worked very well in cities. Most cities have done away with the Beat Cop.

This worked in cities where the general populaton had a respect for law enforcement, where communities came together and such.

Today its rarely the case, the beat cop is replaced by “community policing”, and in certain ethnic neighbourhood, walking the beat isn’t safe for cops.

We have come a long way from the boys in blue walking the street you knew who most of them were and you called them by their name , those days are long gone.