[El Gato]

How about home invasions, rapes, murders, auto accidents, robberies, etc?

They come around to take a report, and clean up the mess. So yes we need them, but we can't expect them to actually *prevent* any of those events. It's not even their job really, according to the courts (and common sense). Other than indirectly that is, and indirectly hasn't been working real well of late.

[NRA2BFree]

They come around to take a report, and clean up the mess. So yes we need them, but we can't expect them to actually *prevent* any of those events. It's not even their job really, according to the courts (and common sense). Other than indirectly that is, and indirectly hasn't been working real well of late.

I respectfully disagree. I think it's working very well. Unfortunately, good news doesn't sell, so the media won't print all the good things that LEOs do every day. All we hear about are the bad things that a few do.