That’s why they don’t like to do the mundane things that we the people pay them for.
Like patrol the middle-class neighborhoods more than once every six months, leaving them wide open to home invasions and non-stop burglaries and car thefts...
They don’t show up if your house has been robbed — people have to fill out their own paperwork here.
They don’t stop the arsonists or graffiti criminals, so the neighborhoods look 3rd world.
And they especially don’t like to sit at a corner for an hour to catch all the people and empty school buses tearing up and down residential streets, almost running kids and pets over, and with all the associated and illegal noise pollution.
I can say that the Pima County Sheriff’s department has a visible presence in this area. They are everywhere. I’ve always found it comforting though it does make me drive a bit more paranoid. But regular deputies doing their jobs are not the same as SWAT persons invading a house at 9:30am in a middle class neighborhood. We lived next door to a SWAT team member briefly. He moved. He abandoned his wife and young child. Hubby always thought he was psycho. I don’t know if he worked for the county or for the city.
I’ve grown up around cops and law enforcement personnel at various levels. For the most part, all seemed to be sane and trustworthy. I just think this particular incident was a grave error. I grieve for this widow and her young boys.