You must live a sheltered life to think this. Viewing an entire group of people as evil or inherently bad. People like you are the reason why progress in the area is so hard. You don't understand the reality of the job.
It's bizarre. "Why can't that internet weirdo see that the police are awesome and society would fall apart if they were gone?" only works if you've not paid attention to what the police are doing because you get to be 50 miles away when they're doing it.
But this is one of my most sincere postings, I'm being serious, and I'm trying to point out something that others have trouble discerning and recognizing.
I can see how it would be more comfortable for you if you could think me a troll.
> You continue to paint any pushback as some bad faith,
You should ask yourself why your good faith is so bad for everyone. "I'm just doing what I've always done" is lame.
I've taught my children from a young age that we must never come to the attention of the police. That they are not friends or heroes. That, should they show up and we can't just disappear back into the background... whatever bad things might have been happening are likely to get worse.
That if, for instance, someone is trying to murder them, they must handle it themselves. That if we are stolen from, our belongings are gone for good.
You though, you're welcome to continue to live in your illusions, and god help you if those ever melt away like fog on a sunny day.
> The fact of the matter is most people trust most police,
Most birds think the spider-tailed viper is a convenient meal. Their consensus in the matter isn't very inspiring though.
He's correct that if you remove police from a well-off suburb not much will happen, because they mainly do tickets and domestics, and who really cares if a couple is fighting?
But when police are removed from neighborhoods where crime is an issue, it immediately and directly affects those who live there, and not in a good way.
Like when those big inner cities become food deserts because the retail stores start locking up the toothpaste and cans of soup behind glass cabinets a few months before they close down entirely and move out?
You think that those places could get worse than they are, and that the cops (who don't do anything to stop any of these crimes as they happen, or to deter them in any way because they're too busy concentrating on the drug war that brings in confiscated cash they get to keep) somehow prevent things from becoming even worse?
It's difficult to reconcile the idea that you live on the same planet that I do, and that (presumably) you have done so for many years.
Like, you really believe that? Please tell me you don't. This must be a joke.
SF basically told their police to stop going after small time thieves after 2020. The result has been mass mobs of stores and a huge increase in theft. They voted for these polices to raise the bar at which someone can be prosecuted, so police do nothing.
Jesus, do your research (and not on left wing Twitter lol)