The "we need police because they protect and keep us safe" crowd, do you know how ridiculous y'all..

[Jalether]

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Let's apply logic here for christ sake. There are finite number of police officers with finite resources and often insufficient training and skillset in any given city/place at any one time and
they are not in every household, every nuke and corner of everywhere just waiting to anticipate and intercept before a crime is committed

99 percent of the time, police only show up after a crime has been committed usually to secure the scene, take statements and if possible make arrest
and overwhelming majority of the cases they even preoccupy their time with are traffic stops and non violent crimes

How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time? (Published 2020)


and when they do show up, they have an incredibly shocking clearance rate on cases as most cases go unresolved so not only are you not any less safe from police presence in a community, you are also less likely to have closure or justice as a victim.

Police solve just 2% of all major crimes
Also most of them are only motivated to protect certain people in society

These are backed up by real data and studies

So unless you can find a way to have a police officer per every single individual in every community watching guard 24/7 like the secret service protects the president of the US (which is impossible), there's no way for them to prevent and protect you from danger

 

[Wildhundreds]

Let those who want to have police in their community have them.. Those who don't, let them have their own community and have them police themselves..

May the best community win..

 

[Canada Goose]

Police make people think twice about doing an crime due to the possibility of eventually getting caught.


Sex crimes alone make the police worth it, would you want your lady walking around in a policeless society?

 

[AJD]

fukk 12 as always but the THREAT of someone calling the cops is enough for ppl to not run completely lawless.

 

[Jalether]

Police make people think twice about doing an crime due to the possibility of eventually getting caught.


Sex crimes alone make the police worth it, would you want your lady walking around in a policeless society?

It's not getting caught criminals or potential criminals are afraid of, it's going to jail and getting convicted. So perhaps your argument will make more sense if it focuses on detectives who solve crimes
and judges who prosecute. Police themselves don't deter crimes very well at all.

 

[EBK String]

Let those who want to have police in their community have them.. Those who don't, let them have their own community and have them police themselves..

May the best community win..

clowns like you is why shyt never changes. Your scary ass cries and begs for more police instead of more competent and better trained police, so the city just hires a bunch of incompetent idiots and gives them guns and they don't do shyt but show up after the crime is done.

 

[Jalether]

fukk 12 as always but the THREAT of someone calling the cops is enough for ppl to not run completely lawless.

So your argument is about deterrence then why isn't the US one of the safest countries in the world considering it has the 3rd largest police force in the world?

Why aren't rape victims,murder victims,domestic abuse victims etc protected from harm in the first place by the police in the US despite their relatively large presence and resources. their deterrent force must be weak as fukk

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Did the OP not see what happened in Baltimore after Freddie Gray was murdered by the cops? BPD basically said, "we can't murder with impunity, then we won't do the rest of our jobs". Then crime went up significantly in Baltimore.

Police do fukk shyt, but there's no doubt that their very presence is a deterrent to most crimes.

 

[get these nets]

OP

Watch the news tonight, and read about how the city of Seattle govt. is reacting a year after reducing the police budget.

 

[ViShawn]

Legally cops aren't obligated to protect us as individuals. Many Supreme Court and lower Court cases have confirmed this in rulings

 

[Wildhundreds]

clowns like you is why shyt never changes. Your scary ass cries and begs for more police instead of more competent and better trained police, so the city just hires a bunch of incompetent idiots and gives them guns and they don't do shyt but show up after the crime is done.

You just mad because your weak a$$ cannot accept a challenge. Get with mfers like yourself and build a community with them.

 

[Nikki_04]

How do you protect your neighborhoods then?

 

[AJD]

So your argument is about deterrence then why isn't the US one of the safest countries in the world considering it has the 3rd largest police force in the world?

It'd be worse. I don't know how other dudes think but back when I was younger I'd feel superhuman walking/driving around knowing police don't exist and I could w.e the fukk I want, even whack a fool with little to 0 chance of getting caught.

 

[Jalether]

clowns like you is why shyt never changes. Your scary ass cries and begs for more police instead of more competent and better trained police, so the city just hires a bunch of incompetent idiots and gives them guns and they don't do shyt but show up after the crime is done.

Exactly. Nevermnind that more police doesn't solve the root cause of most crimes, which is poverty and mental health. instead of pushing to invest in poor communities and providing mental health
resources for those who need it, they are there calling for more racist proud boy loving trigger happy meatheads

 

[Jalether]

How do you protect your neighborhoods then?

By eliminating the root cause of crimes in most communities i.e poverty,lack of education and career prospect and mental health.
ultimately you still need police but quality ones i.e quality > quantity