When the civil authorities fail to act you give raise to vigilantism
Some police departments are ran by politicians who support the criminal element and they are ordered to look the other way, do nothing or out right do not enforce the law. It’s not the police officers fault but their civilian bosses.
All police departments have their sorry cracks who won’t do anything. In my sons small department they have officers month in and month out who have no arrests, citations or anything, that is on leadership.
In any case this is creating the perfect storm for the criminal element as they get a free pass and the government at the state and local levels have decided not to fulfill one of the most basic reasons for it’s very creation and existence to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. At some point the question begs to be asked, why am I paying taxes to these lazy bums?
Eventually the people will say to hell with the criminals and the government and take matters into their own hands and deal with the criminal element, human nature will take its course. When this happens the governments at all levels will go bat crap crazy and fiercely prosecute anyone caught exercising vigilantism. People caught will be paraded and prosecuted and some successfully until the crime reaches a point where no jury, a jury of their peers who has been victimized by the criminals, is going to convict a vigilante, then the government will have to decide, do we do our job or throw in openly with the criminal element which will create a bigger backlash from the citizenry.
This is a simple fix, state and local governments, DO YOUR JOBS!