Has anyone here ever been PROTECTED by the police?
Not showing up to take notes after a robbery or mugging.
But actually being RIGHT THERE when it happened and protected you?
I’ve not had that happen.
I’m sure the police are important.
It’s just I don’t recall them ACTIVELY protecting me.
And I don’t go to the black neighborhoods on Staten Island (just telling it like it is) to buy drugs so I’m good.
You hit the nail on the head and that is pretty much the point, there is no way police can be there to protect you....just not possible.
But we still get the preverbial “if not us then who?”. The ole’ thin blue line is the only thing that can save you. It simply is not true, and to believe so is dangerous, dangerous to you and to your loved ones.
We need to return to the base thought that a citizen has a right and a duty to defend oneself and ones country.
Clean_sweep notes wilderness being a place where such a thing is possible, and he/she is correct. It is the roots of our self sufficence.
A neighbor of mine called the cops and told them someone was trying to force her window open. 40 minutes later, a cop arrived, noted the damage, and guessed a passing car’s headlights must have scared the intruder off. The neighbor, partially disabled, bought a gun the next day.
Police merely supply the chalk and yellow tape at a crime scene.
I was gonna say the same thing. They don’t protect. They show up after the fact to write a report. Here, unless there’s bodily injury to someone, they don’t show up at all. They tell you to fill a report out online.....for the insurance company.
Of course this is Oklahoma...
Was nearly the worst hours of my life....
Has anyone here ever been PROTECTED by the police?
Cop siblings in my family will be the first to tell you that they “document crimes and search for the perpetrators”.
They caution us not to rely on the policy to prevent any type of crime.