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Given their track record with tasers and guns i'd imagine "inevitability" would be more accurate. Is there any evidence that police presence even reduces crime, let alone potential for terrorist attacks?
Yes, the evidence that police reduce crime is dispositive. Even post-2020 NPR admits this:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/04/20/988769793/when...
> Williams and his colleagues find adding a new police officer to a city prevents between 0.06 and 0.1 homicides, which means that the average city would need to hire between 10 and 17 new police officers to save one life a year. They estimate that costs taxpayers annually between $1.3 and $2.2 million. The federal government puts the value of a statistical life at around $10 million (Planet Money did a whole episode on how that number was chosen). So, Williams says, from that perspective, investing in more police officers to save lives provides a pretty good bang for the buck. Adding more police, they find, also reduces other serious crimes, like robbery, rape, and aggravated assault.
The white-collar meme that more police != less crime has caused hundreds if not thousands of excess deaths and many more excess rapes, robberies, and assaults, mainly within minority populations.
Even if you’re just trying to prevent the inevitable civilian vigilante groups from terrorizing people!
That's silly london. Our cops are armed to teeth. Also, would drones have stopped all that violence?
Drones are about surveillance and control, not protection. It's inevitable but lets stop pretending it's about our protection.