[blackdog]

I'm comfortable with cops being report takers after the fact. That is what their job is supposed to be. Cops are not supposed to dispense justice, prevent crimes, or protect us in some old school rerun of Dragnet dogma.

Police are by constitutional construct, a reactive force to crimes committed, not a preventive force. And yes, that means their job is to fill out the paperwork when a crime has been committed. It's not their job to attempt to anticipate crime.

[CodeToad]

“Police are by constitutional construct, a reactive force to crimes committed, not a preventive force.”

Where the Hell did you get that from? Enforcement of anything is not after the fact.