Fighting the ostrich syndrome

Amen Brother, you are completely right. It is simply being able to see the trees through the forest.

You mention families needing to be more involved in protecting their families. This has become a reality in many parts of the states already. Not to the extent that you are talking about but it is still already started.

Now don't get me wrong, the majority of the police force in my area are great people (there's always at least one bad apple in the bunch and we have ours.). I work with the police force almost on a daily basis due to the work I do with kids. The force is so strung out that many of them do not have the time to take to do their jobs right. For many of them this breaks their hearts. Those are the ones that really care about what they are doing and why they are doing it. It tares me up also that these people have to go through this. Long hours and very little support if any.

The force here has been cut back in the last year while the size of the city has doubled and crime rate has increased. (It's a liberal run city with a mayor that is up on charges of illicit handling of funds.) It makes the city very vulnerable to such things as you are talking about. I am afraid nothing will be done about it either until after the fact when it is too late.