Naaah. We don’t need more police. What we need is an honest appraisal of what they can and cannot realistically do. And more importantly, what they SHOULD do.
Fergadishu and other communities like it are stuck on stupid. They’re stuck on criminality. There is nothing that police can do under those circumstances absent establishing what is, in effect, a long term armed occupation. Police were designed to be peace officers, helping the lawful community deal with a relatively small amount of criminality.
I’m not interested in paying for or justifying a police presence to protect criminals from criminals.
Well said.