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.
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.
The deterrent is called the 2nd amendment.
My point exactly.