You people are looking for answers in all the wrong places. The problem is a complete failure of liberalism and liberal policies, moral relativity and forced egalitarianism.
Riots, flash mobs and gang violence all have their roots in moral relativity, which is nothing more than moral anarchy. Police can do little to prevent the violence, only clean up after the fact.
This is the first time in history where man has tried to build a society without GOD and the result is a disaster. Man has not just lost his moral compass, we have rejected.
Man, alone, is incapable of being the arbiter of good and evil. All man can do is decide legal and illegal. An ordered society requires more than that.
Vigilante justice is just another form of moral relativity (unless you are protecting yourself or others).
“Vigilante justice is just another form of moral relativity (unless you are protecting yourself or others).”
Who said anything about vigilante justice? I have no interest in judging lawbreakers. That’s the job of the courts, which aren’t doing their job either.
The stated job of the police is to protect and serve, to assist citizens in the prevention of crime. Unfortunately, they instead seem to be being used to do more third world sorts of things things like seize cameras from people at townhall meetings.
Ultimately, the public pays for these police services and I think we’re going to hear more of a clamor for reduced police forces. If thery’re never around when you need them, why bother to pay for them? Folks who can afford it will have private security. And the rest of us will be on our own. Which if you think about it isn’t much of a change.