Cops do NOT prevent crime

unreconstructed1 said:

+1

There is another case I remember about a woman with a restraining order that ended up making it to SCOTUS as well.

I try to remind people that the "To Protect and Serve" on the side of patrol cars is an advertising slogan similar to the McDonalds "I'm lovin' it.".

Both serve to project a corporate image, neither should be taken at face value.

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After reading this,,, I agree

I'm sure that cops PREVENT a certain number of crimes at various times, merely by deterrence. Most criminals avoid active resistance. It turns crime into actual WORK, which they avoid like the plague. If there's a visible cop some place, there probably won't be an overt criminal act in THAT place.

What cops DON'T do is protect individuals who don't have personal bodyguard details.

1. Police have no legal duty to protect individuals.
2. Police have no legal liability when they fail to protect individuals.
3. Police have virtually no physical ability to protect individuals.

Police don't protect individuals. They draw chalk outlines around individuals who don't protect themselves.

If you're not willing and able to protect yourself, you're just not going to get protected AT ALL. Anybody who tells you different is a liar.

davidmcbeth said:

But they do "serve and protect" .. just not you ...

They are not imbeciles, just brainwashed into thinking the guberment has the ability to protect them...

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No, some of them are imbeciles, in particular the ones who stick with fantasy when you explain reality to them, including citations of Supreme Court cases.

Some people can be educated.

Others just have to be ignored.

I had a bunch of stuff ripped off on a job across the street and up a little on the same block as the police station. You can see the cop shop from my work place.....they didn't prevent that one.

sudden valley gunner said:

I had a bunch of stuff ripped off on a job across the street and up a little on the same block as the police station. You can see the cop shop from my work place.....they didn't prevent that one.

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Cops may prevent crime by accident.
But there main job is to draw chalk outlines and reports of what the body looks like. :lol:

Sorry this is a jest. I have nothing good to add I just haven't said anything in a while.

Lol ..


Again... I do not dislike cops, in general. Some I do not trust, some I do, and some are good friends.

Most genuinely believe that they are making a difference. Even if it means blurring the line of citizens' rights. I don't agree, but that's their position, right or wrong.

But I think that most police officers, deep down, know that they can only be so effective. They can't be everywhere at once.

I think that also they occasionally, by proxy, may prevent a crime or two, simply by being "at the right place, at the right time". But based, on the # of cops per person in population, the percentage is pretty damn low. Just a guess.

T.



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Deanimator said:

Police don't protect individuals. They draw chalk outlines around individuals who don't protect themselves.

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Then the prosecutors try to lock up the ones who do protect themselves. Not true in ALL states but still true.