@comradeagle More to the point really, is the police have proven to be ineffective at protecting people and property even before they were defunded.
At best, police are capable of enforcing some general safety rules like speed limits, parking and other mostly onerous rules. For the purpose to which they are marketed to the people - protection - they are useless.
Anyone who actually really needs to have serious protection of their person or property has gone private probably for hundreds of years now.
@shebang Yes, that is a problem with "call the police." They were ineffective to begin with.
But you certainly don't need anything to protect yourself.
But you certainly don't need anything to protect yourself.
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@comradeagle @shebang If they were so ineffective why does removing them make things so much worse?
@realcaseyrollins @comradeagle Lack of an alternative infrastructure. They’ve had a monopoly for so long there are few alternatives in place.
Ineffective in the sense that if you were to call them for, say, breaking and entering into your home, chances are the crime would be long since done when they arrived, assuming you're in an area where they respond to that stuff.
It's not about police being at-large protection, it's about you owing a gun to shoot people who decide they need to remove your stuff from your premises.
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