[DannyTN]

"The police are necessary. And limitations and oversight of them is necessary. Properly managed with limits and oversights and rights and the whole shebang, they can be a force for good."

Bears repeating

The alternative of no police, no military, no border patrol is unthinkable.

[Eleutheria5]

“The alternative of no police, no military, no border patrol is unthinkable.”

It’s also been thought of, as far back as the Talmud, and as recently as by John Locke.

[fatman6502002]

What are needed are well screened police candidates, meaning psychological screening to weed out the sociopaths and psychopaths. After that, when you’ve found the proper kinds of candidates for policing then you train them properly and drum into their heads that ultimately they are there to protect the people and their Constitutional Rights and most importantly to always live by the oath that they take. When you’ve done that properly you will have the kind of police force that will stand by the people.

[ExGeeEye]

It used to be the way things were.

Not so much unthinkable as merely forgotten.

Like having to chase a wolf pack out of town. That appears likely to happen again with people mourning the endangered noble wolf and seeking to re-import them into areas where our ancestors wisely eradicated them.