[fieldmarshaldj]

"We have the training and the expertise," the 58-year-old chief says. "We know how to approach folks. That's what the good people of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pay police to do."

That's nice, chief. And when seconds count and the son of a Crip is banging a civilian's head against the ground with the intent to kill, you professionals are just minutes (or longer) away.

[asksimon]

I think the difficulty I have is my view toward the police. If it is my duty to protect myself and those entrusted to my care, my family, how immoral is it to relinquish that duty to some one else, uniformed or not. It is against every good thing for me to expect another to do for me what I should have done myself.
If Z-man is found guilty, then all justice in this nation has been thwarted, “truth has fallen in the street and equity cannot enter. Yea truth fails, and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey.”
(Quote from Isaiah 59)