where ive lived, and especially where i live now, for the most part they are setting up speed traps and crap more than anything else. there are an unbelievable amount of cops, and almost every one you see is sitting on the side of the road with a radar gun.
i just feel like in general, we need about 1/5th the amount of cops as we do, maybe people would be more reliant on themselves, and we would still have cops ONLY WHEN WE NEED THEM. they are more of a burden than a help really. when most of the police work they do is to meet quotas and bring in revenue, and have to enforce bullshit laws to achieve that. they are more of a burden and a threat to society.
yes part of this is the average citizens fault as much as it is the government and police forces fault. people are so damn useless and lazy these days. they cant solve their own problems by themselves. if your neighbors dog barks too much, fucking go tell them to shut their dog up! if all else fails, shit the dog up yourself, or live with the noise.
its like a couple years ago, some neighbors complained about a bike jump we had dug in our backyard, said it made the neighborhood look bad. so instead of confronting me about it, they call the cops, who had to show up, basically to say that nothing im doing is illegal, they cant tell me to do anything. and guess what? because my neighbors had to be douche bags about it, we just made more of them and made them bigger. same neighbor complained about me shooting targets in the backyard (my parents house is outside of city limits with a lot of land, no HOA either) they could have talked to me about it, but they called the cops, same shit happened, and now i dont give a shit when or how much i shoot.
what im trying to say is both sides need to mind their own fucking business more, it will only make a stronger and better functioning society. as well as better people.
