Yuku free message boards

Alvida wrote:

---

So what would the more involved people be in effect? Police? When would they be on duty, presuming they are in full-time work? Would these people have training on how to diffuse a potentially violent situation, could they handle informing relatives of a death and seeing often unpleasant scenes of accidents and murder? IMO, an organised, designated, trained force is needed, and one given orders by the home office.

Consider the similar situation that comes up with the fire department.
Most of the time there is no fire, so most small communities rely on volunteer fire fighters instead of professionals. It does not take that long to learn how to deal with hoses, pumps, ladders, etc., and actually police have far less to become familiar with because they don't need the equipment.

You asked about how volunteers would be at diffusing a potentially dangerous situation, and the answer clearly is better than professional police. I don't know if you have noticed, but the police are terrible at it. Most often they end up shooting innocent people these days. They are trained to be authoritative, aggressive, and belligerent. They always end up making people angry. And they are not at all dealing with domestic tragedies or accidents the way people with more practical backgrounds are.

But the main idea is not to have or need a special police force at all, but to do what we always used to do 100 years ago. Which is for everyone to always be acting a little bit more conscientiously, to watch out for themselves and others. This means keeping a weapon handy, making sure you lock up and leave nothing to steal, watching suspicious people casing your neighbors belongings, etc. It is getting lazy that has allowed the situation to decay to the point where now police have become more of a threat and tax collector, then a help and protector. If we all returned to our full responsibilities, then we would not be reading about how police murder someone like Diallo or Bell.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/11/25/police_shoot_3_outside_nyc_nightclub/