You just described how to institute a police state with the support of the foolish and ignorant public. The criminals in gov't are well aware of the tactic. Allow street criminals to go free basically unchecked by the "justice" system just as
@pmclaine alluded to in his post #1813, make it illegal and costly for communities to police their own without gov't intervention (deterrent) which in turns forces reliance on statists with a badge (all are whether they understand it or not), and once crime is artificially enhanced the sheep will call for more police "protection" and the state will gladly grant that request while using police for their true purpose which is to protect the state and force it's twisted agenda on the public.
Far less police by a huge percentage so as to nullify what I described above accompanied with the understanding that true defense and justice can never come from the state but only from individuals being more accountable to oneself and the people around them (community). For those that may question or disagree with what I am pointing out, what is something other than "public safety
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" that a man can blindly trust the gov't to do better than himself and those around him? How about healthcare
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? What about his finances
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? Education his children perhaps
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? Social justice and equality
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? I got it, protecting American culture and sovereignty by repelling foreign invasion
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? These are just the tip of the iceberg and I can surely go on. Many of us agree the government is a corrupt cesspool of ineptitude, waste, theft, corruption, and evil but many if not most still buy into the benevolancy of it's justice system and it's soldiers among us. Why?