Well said.
Thanks. I’m just hoping that one of the take aways here is a realistic analysis of what can really be done with police. Rather than the typical, knee jerk reaction to just hire more.
There were a lot of police in Ferguson last night. The National Guard made a debut. But to what end? The scum burned the town just the same. By having a police presence, all you’re doing is putting up a convenient and expensive scapegoat. A more honest and inexpensive response would have been to tell the local residents that they’re on their own, and if they don’t want to live in a burnt out, robbed out ghetto, it was up to them to decide to defend it.