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How can a decent cop operate in areas where the majority of the citizenry has either been locked up or is related to someone who has?

Have you considered that perhaps we have burdened the citizenry with a few too many laws ... for their own good? In these areas you speak of, what would you say is the most common "crime". What law has criminalized these citizens? If you have any real stats that would be very interesting. It's says something about our society, that we have created entire communities where there are just ... police ... and criminals ...no "ordinary citizens... that’s odd somehow don't you think?

Have you considered that perhaps we have burdened the citizenry with a few too many laws ...

Don't solicit underaged girls for sex, don't shoot policemen ... how could Woodring possible have remembered all those rules?

"Have you considered that perhaps we have burdened the citizenry with a few too many laws ... for their own good?"

Yes, I just don't see any public movement for reversing the trend unfortunately.

"In these areas you speak of, what would you say is the most common "crime""

I couldn't say. I'm lucky not to work in too bad of an area. But in precincts with nicknames like "Fort Apache" and the lesser-known 75th ("the killing fields") there is an enormous amount of violence.

" It's says something about our society, that we have created entire communities where there are just ... police ... and criminals ...no "ordinary citizens... that’s odd somehow don't you think?"

I'm not saying everyone in those areas is a criminal. But I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find someone that isn't either a friend or a relative of a current or ex-con. More "civilian control" would lead to the effective de-policing of such areas. There is a difference between proactive and reactive policing and you'd eliminate the former completely.

Is it odd that there are such areas? I find it to be a predictable result of generations of liberal social engineering and a complete abdication of the concepts of responsibility and two-parent families.