This post is the built to show the necessity of a well regulated militia and the police function being in the hands of an active and engaged, unprofessional body of citizens aka We The People. So, we will discuss justice as the goal and take down some idols/concepts that are proven to be false in the process...
So if LEOs don't deter serious violent crime, what does?Welcome to 2021. For those of you out there who have not made a resolution to pack heat every day for personal defense, here’s a fact to consider. Police make arrests in just 11% of major crimes nationwide. Here’s another factoid. Only 2% of major crimes result in a conviction of the guilty party.
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A whole lot of people think that police deter serious violent crime. In a sense they do, however law enforcement’s primary job consists of acting as armed historians. Figuring out what happened after the fact.
Ultimately, the person who is most likely to save you and your family from violent attack is the person looking back at you in the mirror in the morning, not someone in uniform. Concealed carry can save your life, especially in this time when fewer arrests, fewer arrestees held in lieu of posting meaningful bail, and prosecutors are turning a blind eye to charging all but the most egregious cases.
When a sentence against a crime isn’t carried out quickly, people are encouraged to commit crimes.
Therefore, when people get away with crime, they are not deterred. Swift, righteous judgements are the deterrent... Or, they should be. The law abiding are deterred to action due to the financial burden of exercising their rights. See Rittenhouse, see McCloskey. Oh no, comfort is the first sacrifice of freedom.
Chalk this one up to the lie of "Public Safety", where people are surveilled and pre-accused before committing any crime.In the ostensible land of the free, we are told that all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty by their peers. To those who’ve been paying attention however, we know that “innocent until proven guilty” is a farce into today’s police state. If you doubt this assertion, you need only look at the data to see that a whopping 74% of people in jails across the country - have not been convicted of a crime.
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Nevertheless, the Pasco Sheriff’s Office uses data from the Pasco County Schools district and the state Department of Children and Families to compile this very list from middle and high schools who they think will turn out to be criminals.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, the sheriff’s office defended the tactics and said its data-sharing practices with the school district goes back 20 years and are intended to keeping school campuses safe. Only a juvenile intelligence analyst and the school resource officers have access to the information, it said.