Joe -
I worked rural and urban. The rural needed police less often that the urgan but when the rural folks called they really needed the police.
The world of lynch mobs is gone like the days of unlighted streets and horse wagons.
What we need is about 95% fewer lawyers. They are the new robber barons - worse by far than any of the cabals that Teddy R broke up nearly a century ago. With very few exceptions the lawyers I have known (many, many) pretend to be honorable but all they are really doing is grubbing for other people's money.
Cops could be better but regardless are needed. By morality lawyers cannot be better because they are preditory by nature.
Let's get off the good hard working cops and get on to the real source of problems in our society - the legal profession without which we'd all be better off.
