A guy down the street was a drug dealer. He would also do meth cooks, which everyone could smell. He was a polite guy though and didn't seem to have weapons. However, customers would come to buy drugs, exchanges would take place right in his front yard. Stuff would go missing around the neighborhood, apparently stolen by customers who noticed stuff like riding mowers in yards, and would come back when they needed something to pawn to get cash for drugs.
I regularly called the police department and talk to the narcotics detective. He'd always say he'd look into it. Neighbors told me it was useless to call the police. The detective was obviously getting annoyed by my calls.
One day the drug dealer knocks on my door. Tells me no use in calling Steve (name of narcotics detective) because they have an arrangement and Steve is getting annoyed by my calls.
A couple years later Detective Steve was arrested in a federal sting. His entire house was full of drugs and cash.
The drug dealer eventually died of a disease he contracted from needles.
Some squatters moved into that house for a while. Sometimes I'd hear screaming and gunfire. The property is overgrown now and the last car parked in the yard has four flat tires. Maybe there's corpses inside the house. Who knows. At least I don't smell meth cooks anymore. And theft has gone down on the street now that we don't have customers coming to buy drugs.
So, yeah I no longer call police for anything, they won't do anything and if you keep calling they consider you a nuisance caller and can create problems for you. It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch.
> It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch.
This is a bad take, in my opinion. For the most part, all types of crime have been steadily declining since the 1990's [0][1][2]. You can't say policing is ineffective as a whole. There are certainly things to be improved upon, though.
```So, yeah I no longer call police for anything, they won't do anything and if you keep calling they consider you a nuisance caller and can create problems for you. It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch. ```
Alternatively look at places where police does function properly and consider what's different.
Because what you can describe like your police compared to the police in some African hellhole or the police where I live can vary between unaccountable mercenaries perpetuating class imbalances, ghettoisation, etc or a well functioning local guardperson or a mob offering "protection"
I regularly called the police department and talk to the narcotics detective. He'd always say he'd look into it. Neighbors told me it was useless to call the police. The detective was obviously getting annoyed by my calls.
One day the drug dealer knocks on my door. Tells me no use in calling Steve (name of narcotics detective) because they have an arrangement and Steve is getting annoyed by my calls.
A couple years later Detective Steve was arrested in a federal sting. His entire house was full of drugs and cash.
The drug dealer eventually died of a disease he contracted from needles.
Some squatters moved into that house for a while. Sometimes I'd hear screaming and gunfire. The property is overgrown now and the last car parked in the yard has four flat tires. Maybe there's corpses inside the house. Who knows. At least I don't smell meth cooks anymore. And theft has gone down on the street now that we don't have customers coming to buy drugs.
So, yeah I no longer call police for anything, they won't do anything and if you keep calling they consider you a nuisance caller and can create problems for you. It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch.