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RE: Disturbing Incident: What Sort of World do we Live in?
The people need to understand the police are more a cleanup crew by definition and rarely the intervention. Nothing against police as I train many of them in many countries, but they can not predict where a crime will be. It is society which must realize that it is us that need to make the change, not government. Crime will go down when people take a stand.
And that would also suggest we need more freedoms to do so. I know lots of people are cautious about stopping a crime for reasons of being sued into bankruptcy by some greedy attorney who decides they can make a "wrongful arrest" or "improper procedure" case that makes the criminal win and the citizen lose. At least that's somewhat prevalent here in the US.
A return to common law with jury nullification well understood so that good people stand to protect good people. But without people standing up instead of always backing down or cowering, we do not stand a chance at rectifying this problem.