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Crime problems are mostly social/economic. Regular people shouldn't have to fight robbers. Thats what police are for. Responding to being robbed isn't an exerc
by coryl 17y ago
Crime problems are mostly social/economic. Regular people shouldn't have to fight robbers. Thats what police are for.
Responding to being robbed isn't an exercise in patriotism.
- dgordon 17y agoActually, police have no duty to protect individuals. The Supreme Court and lower courts have ruled this repeatedly.
- Hexstream 17y agoYou mean movies have lied to me? :(
- philwelch 17y agoPolice are for cleaning up crime scenes after the fact and trying to catch the people responsible. There's almost nothing they can do before a crime is committed. Even if a crime is in progress, they're more interested in protecting their own skin than in protecting yours. (Ever notice that a dead cop is a tragedy and a dead civilian is just another day at work?) I've known people who were attacked around the corner from a police van and the police did nothing, if they even bothered to notice at all.