[RightOnTheBorder]

Per you, our only choices are to carte blanche cops firebombing babies in their cribs in the dark of night or letting vast mobs run wild in the streets.

Let me add this Paine, given only those two hypothetical scenarios I would still choose the latter. Without police me and my neighbors would at least have a chance to defend ourselves against the mobs without the threat of state retribution. The police state with it's courts, jails, and badged thugs is a whole different animal.

[Dutchboy88]

"Without police me and my neighbors would at least have a chance to defend ourselves against the mobs without the threat of state retribution."

Then I can suggest a few places you may wish to move and have that beautiful arrangement. The rest of us normal folks would like the police to stay on duty.