The solution is Community Policing. Where the community policies itself. It does this in a manner that a convened board of community leaders sees fit. One that does not involve the police force. But one that at the same time reminds the police who they work for.

Trying to explain to the public servants who they work for is like a one legged man in in ass kicking contest.
It gets nowhere especially in the cities.
Writing pointing out the wrongs along with giving solutions goes unanswered or ignored.
If you are lucky they will admit the wrongs doing all the while saying what are you going to do about.

Then as civil peoples when you have exhausted the quill and then when you have to pick up the Armalite you can do so with clear conscience. That is the breaking point I believe Dark Helmet is talking about. And it is being reached.

That is effectively the model that the "rurale" militias in southern. Mexico have done once the locals realized the government and cartels were flip sides of the same coin.

The "solution" is to end the War on Drugs. Asking our police to stop people from using "illegal substances" is like asking them to piss up a rope. It can't be done.

Sure, the police can bust down doors at three in the morning, bust up everything in sight, and arrest some low-level drug user or dealer. But so what? Some people want to get high. And as long as that is true, other people will satisfy that demand, and will risk prison and even death for the profits.

Politicians are asking the police to do the impossible, and the police are doing the best they can. The police certainly bear some of the blame when things inevitably go wrong, but the fact is that we keep electing politicians who keep this insane drug war going.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Excellent thread.

Some of these stories are almost unbelievable.

These bastards are the definition of JBT.