[john639753]

AHH the services of a cop.....that would be ticketed for not wearing my seat belt, or a helmet, or a ticket for a blown tag lightbulb that carries a 90 dollar fine, or maybe a ticket for having an expired tag while driving the car to the repair shop to have it fixed after it failed an emissions test, or how bout being stopped at a random paper checkpoint, or threatened with jail if you don't want your car searched at said checkpoint, or having your life destroyed because you use a drug the good government thinks you should not....or even being shot in the mouth in a clean shoot of a helpless teenager....tell me oh poobar,,,what good are the police??? they never stop a crime, they create crimes where none exist, break every law they want, bust down doors in the middle of the night and shoot the occupants,,but it's ok, they just had the wrong home.....the list is virtually endless..but what good do they do??

[Poohbah]

what good are the police???

Based on my experiences with (a) police and (b) you, the answer is "a lot more good than you are."

You seem to be one of those folks that is a waste of food, water, oxygen, and DNA.

[Hank Rearden]

the list is virtually endless..but what good do they do??

Well, if you're not armed and determined to defend yourself, they (eventually) show up, scribble a report about how you died and draw a chalk outline around you.

Your point about the stupid harassment, via stupid laws, by petty tyrants is well taken. Cops need to be confined to doing useful things, like keeping bad guys sweating and worried. Deterrence is 80% of their role.