I was looking for police...

[miko2d]

AKIron: if my use of the word "ass" offends your sensitivites then you have my apology.

 No. Just being accused of inventing stuff in most offensive terms that is actually a quite common knowlege published in may sources is a bit an overreaction. I just forgot to place a link to any of the two dozen that showed in google.

I'm presuming that your intent in starting this thread was to diminish in your mind the debt that you owe to the police.

 You mean that I intend to cheat on my taxes? Not really.
 What kind of debt do you mean? I donated a few thousand dollars to the families of policemen and firefighters dead at WTC.
 Respect? Those who do a good job certainly have my respect.

However, many fatalites among police are the direct result of them standing between you and someone that would deprive you of life or property. If you cannot see the difference then I am wasting my time.

 Surely. If only a minority of people shared your respect to the police, there would not be possible to have police democratically. Since we did vote for the police, it means that we do care.
 I am not arguing about the need or value of police, only the method in which it should be provided. Anything big brother can do, the free market and charity can do better. That's why capitalism is so freaking superior to communism. If only people like you truly believed that...


Tarmac: Police deal with both of these in their everyday jobs, but add a third: there are people out there who will assault you just for your uniform.

 I am quite aware of ridiculous laws that let criminals roam the streets and place policemen in danger.


Sundiver: It often seems our immigrants are more impassioned about our Ideals than people born and raised here...

 Because we know what it leads to and have no desire to live throug it again.
 


Sixpence: and the people with no money would get no protection...

 Less protection - just like they get less of everything in our society. Fortunately, one can improve one's station through labor and enterprise - or could, untill the government interfered into economy.

 miko

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by miko2d
Less protection - just like they get less of everything in our society. Fortunately, one can improve one's station through labor and enterprise - or could, untill the government interfered into economy.

 miko

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by Sixpence
Yeah, that's the ticket.

Lower income people already get inferior police protection.  Municipal police forces are paid for in large part by property taxes in the city.  Of course a city composed primarily of $200,000 and up houses is going to generate more money through property taxes than a city that has lots of crappy housing, or maybe even housing paid for through public subsidy.  

Not to mention the fact that a wealthy city probably has less crime anyway, so police can spend their time getting kittens out of trees and doing other feel-good projects, whereas in a larger city, resources are thin and police are overworked running from one incident to the next.