Worth pointing that there's no such thing as "police not responding" in many European countries either. Just a heated argument with your neighbor and someone ca

Worth pointing that there's no such thing as "police not responding" in many European countries either. Just a heated argument with your neighbor and someone calls the police? They're going to show up even if no crime is being committed, try to mediate and diffuse the situation - because their multi-year training covered that as well, not just the application of government-sanctioned violence. I don't think long sentences work as a deterrent if there's just a low expectation of the chaps in uniforms even putting in any work.