The problem with community policing is it tends to function on the emotion of the moment. After seeing the videos and statements regarding this event I would certainly say the kid has the right idea (defending a population from a violent assault) but the situation needed more organization, training and support. More often though, "community policing" quickly turns into warlords that also attack the population they claim to defend (CHAZ/CHOP).
sensationalized pop news. When I think of community policing, I immediately think of neighborhood watch signs and the only man outside is washing all his family vehicles. It has more pressence than local police and your neighbors are less likely to shoot each other than the extra baggage that tends to come with local police departments. During my autonomous zone days, no one attacked anybody. The only warlord was me and I carried a weapon less because of it.
That works IF there is a deterrent to back up a neighborhood watch. If there is nobody to report to and no actual response then a neighborhood watch is nothing more than organized witnesses crying to the sky. It will still give a semblance of success if no actual threat materializes.
The problem is how to respond to crime, particularly violent crime, when no other deterrent exists. As all of history shows, the only response left is to meet force with force. That then (hopefully) creates a new deterrent. More often than not that new deterrent becomes the new problem.
Valid point.That is indeed what it looks like and why we eventually went with a police force.
So we can hire serial killers to get away with it for us?
The problem with community policing is it tends to function on the emotion of the moment. After seeing the videos and statements regarding this event I would certainly say the kid has the right idea (defending a population from a violent assault) but the situation needed more organization, training and support. More often though, "community policing" quickly turns into warlords that also attack the population they claim to defend (CHAZ/CHOP).
sensationalized pop news. When I think of community policing, I immediately think of neighborhood watch signs and the only man outside is washing all his family vehicles. It has more pressence than local police and your neighbors are less likely to shoot each other than the extra baggage that tends to come with local police departments. During my autonomous zone days, no one attacked anybody. The only warlord was me and I carried a weapon less because of it.
That works IF there is a deterrent to back up a neighborhood watch. If there is nobody to report to and no actual response then a neighborhood watch is nothing more than organized witnesses crying to the sky. It will still give a semblance of success if no actual threat materializes.
The problem is how to respond to crime, particularly violent crime, when no other deterrent exists. As all of history shows, the only response left is to meet force with force. That then (hopefully) creates a new deterrent. More often than not that new deterrent becomes the new problem.