IMHO, some facts of life in the US: (1) You can get "all the justice you can pay for". (2) Be wealthy: Then if something happens to your house, buy another o

IMHO, some facts of life in the US: (1) You can get "all the justice you can pay for". (2) Be wealthy: Then if something happens to your house, buy another one and move on. (3) If you want to be secure in your home, then live in essentially a fortress, immune to criminals, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, forest fires, police, etc. (4) If you want something like police protection, then hire your own security force. (5) Avoid the police and the legal system. In particular, there are hints that in the low levels of the legal system a lot of the judges are not very objective. (6) Realize that there is a long list of rare but really bad things that can happen to you and/or your family. Some of these things are scary but on average not a very big danger. (7) When government messes up, lead efforts to vote out the leaders, e.g., vote out the mayor and have the new mayor appoint a new chief of police. (8) Make it clear to the police that you are wealthy, powerful, have great lawyers, are well connected to and respected by the power elite, and can protect yourself. Can do all of this without saying a word to the police: Do it by neighborhood, i.e., with houses at $5+ million each, lifestyle, reputation, etc. Yes, (1) - (8) are cynical, extreme, partly in jest, should not be necessary, but, still, are roughly correct. Do realize that typically a newspaper wants to scare people to have smelly bait for the ad hook. But maybe sometimes people should be scared and, then, vote in a new mayor.