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RE: The Police took TWO HOURS to Show Up! ~#privatizeeverything
I live in Canada I can't even carry pepper spray for self defense. Haha. That being said the police show up, like for even internet crimes they come to your house in ten minutes to take your statement. We are kinda over policed to a point.
That's absolute craziness that you can't even carry pepper spray for self defense. The police will definitely show up for something where money can be made for them, like any crime they can fine you for. Personal safety calls in North Minneapolis unfortunately don't qualify.
I thankfully have only had good experiences with the police. Most of them just give you a warning and let you move on. I think being polite and understanding that they are just humans too, like you, doing the 9 to 5 just trying to survive, like us, is important to keep in mind when interacting with them. Not all are bad, not all are good. Every profession has it's fair share of mouth breathers... just how it is. Hope for the best. Keep trying to change the political system you are in and pray it trickles down. Instill values into your family and if one day they decide to take up a job in law enforcement, hope they take those values with them into the job at hand. Good police men and women aren't born in an academy, they are born at home. The police are only as strong as the village they grew up supporting. A good police force starts with you and me and how we treat people around us.
The difference is that all cops are paid with stolen money, primarily to enforce bad laws against non-crimes.
I am also paid with stolen money, but at least all I do is promote literacy. In a free society, my job would be the same and funded voluntarily. Police would be far different. No random checkpoints, ticket quotas, no-knock warrants, arbitrary prohibitions, etc.