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> of course you are going to end up with some bad encounters. That is the price of having police. > The price of not having police is the constant and imminent
by DanBC 6y ago
> of course you are going to end up with some bad encounters. That is the price of having police.
> The price of not having police is the constant and imminent danger and cost of crime. We all have to avoid certain parts of our cities. Women can’t walk safely at night even in the “safe” parts.
And yet many countries don't have police forces that are pathologically violent, and don't have no-go zones in their cities.
- juniper_strong 6y agoIf you look up "Gun Ownership" on Wikipedia, it claims there are around 850 million guns owned by civilians in the world, around 400 million of those 850 million are in the US. Whatever your politics are, you can't begin to understand crime and policing in the US until you internalize those numbers.