I'm going to try to engage you seriously even though your question seems rhetorical and just making an appeal to emotion... Assuming we are in agreement that o

I'm going to try to engage you seriously even though your question seems rhetorical and just making an appeal to emotion... Assuming we are in agreement that our police force must be well trained and operating with good checks and balances it would be great to have a police officer on every corner. It would certainly reduce violent crime and make cities safer. Of course we don't have the resources to do that. Putting gun turrets instead would only be useful in dangerous situations of last resort. It would be a gross misuse of resources and introduces unnecessary risk. So I'm against it but not for the reasons you might think. It's the same reason we probably don't need the police to have all of the decommissioned military hardware. An effective police department probably only needs a few remote controlled guns to be used in those dire situations and would require strict oversight.