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by yummyfajitas 6419 days ago
It's also completely useless for the police to carry weapons. After all, the best we can possibly hope for is that they might shoot someone's bullet in mid air.

Therefore, I propose we stop giving weapons to the police as a cost saving measure.

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British police don't usually have guns, and I always felt safer for it when I lived there, fwiw.
Maybe you felt safer, but the numbers suggest your feelings were incorrect.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/798708/posts

Note: I realize the US has high murder rates. Murder rates are not indicative of general safety, since most murders consist of one crook killing another. To put a face on it, think Tony Soprano or Stringer Bell taking out the competition. Most robberies (at least those reported in crime statistics) consist of a criminal robbing a civilian.

Yes, but they have surveillance cameras everywhere. It's a bit Orwellian.
Most of those cameras are privately owned, and on private property. I'm ok with that.
Does the state have the right to demand and view the tapes?