Originally Posted by HugAJackass
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by Cossatotjoe
JLHEARD

IT IS NOT ABOUT THE GOOD COPS OR BAD COPS! It is about cops and their role in society.
I've been trying to get that point across for years, Joe. They cannot (or will not) hear it.


The role of law enforcement within society is to prevent chaos. Why do we have LEO's? Because citizens want them.

I've been to places off the world where there are no LEO's and I'd take what we have here a million times over compared to what was there.

In the absence of police, thugs rule.

The rule of law itself can only exist when the law is protected and enforced.


That just isn't true. I grew up in a town with no police and in a county of 600 square miles and sheriff's department of about five guys. For all intents and purposes, there were no police at all most of the time. And before fifty years before that, there was one sheriff and one or two deputies for the entire county. And no, thugs did not rule. People were quite capable of handling themselves and the rule of law without constant supervision by government agents.