-Concho-: call us what you want to miko.
I did not mean it to be personally offensive to you. Whenever a government bureucracy creates a warm spot for human trash to benefit from tax money, it does not necessarily meant that some good people would not get in. Probably many do.
But the whole system is skewed against such because the politicking scoundrels can advance their careers better than the principled people do.
If you are one of those principled people, all the more respect to you!
you world is a safer place because of people like me.
If you mean you personally and you are a good cop, sure, and I am gratefull. Not that I would need your charity or would like to rely on it, but I appreciate it nevertheless. I would rather had a system where every one was paid fairly for doing good job.
I was speaking not just about individuals but about all the coercive tax-funded non-consumer cintrolled mechanism. I surely do not feel safer because of it.
I would be much safer if I cept my tax dollars to spend as I find optimal for my protection and if there were not so many restrictions on the supply of security by the private market.
I cannot legally own a bullet-resistant vest or carry a weapon in my city - because policemen are supposed to protect me and somehow my owning a vest would upset them.
And I see whole bunches of them catching seat-belt violators or pot smokers. When not doing that, they are mostly patrolling some inner-city areas who's residents pay no taxes and I hardly see a policeman on my block even though I am paying through the nose.
Somebody's world may be safer because of people like you and money extorted from people like me - but it surely not my world!
how can you take your opinion of police based on an interview with one police officer?
I made one illustration from y personal experience. That surely does not mean that is all I have.
what kind of job do you have? is it a safe eviroment?
And it costs me pretty penny of my private expenses. My taxes I just write off as a loss.
you have total and complete control over your police force if you are a voter.
I have no control over my police force whatsoever. With our all or nothing system a minority vote, even if it's 49% is totally discarded. We do not have proportional representation here. Even if I switched parties to the majority, I would have 1/2,000,000 of the influence. I would hardly call that "total and complete control".
if you don't like it get off your bellybutton and change it.
That would be stupid and never work because of simple economics. If I got out to changed every thing I do not like - from the ban on the milk sale to the foreign tariffs, I would pay much more than I lose.
The political power of special interest groups is concentrated while that of the consumers is diffused.
It is more efficient for me to pay extra few dollars a week for milk rather than go against milk interests - even if I won, which I wouldn't.
Same with the security and other services taken over by socialist state.
Slogans are nice but ignoring the economic reality is plain madness.
Maverick: He spouted off and made a grand generalization about all cops after watching a tv show. Like he has the REAL idea about law enforcement.
You idiot. My family and peole I know have been victims of several crimes and I've seen how police handles those. You do not have to be an electrical engineer to know that the system does not work when the lights do not come up.
In NYC the police protection sucks, the whole system is politicized, corrupted and undermined by Affirmative Action.
Any agressive cops tryinmg to do their job in NY are chased away or prosecuted because of accusations of "excessive force", "ethnic profiling" or some other crap.
The windbags like you stay on, chase pot smokers and sing praises to their bosses, whenever they are not getting underfeet of the Fire Department guys.
miko
