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Personally I think they are far less effective then they could be. For one things, cops are some of the worlds biggest cowards. It takes 30 of the to arrest a single guy, armed or unarmed. Yeah, you want to be safe, but come on, 30 of them?
Their training needs to be greater. A police officer should be much more powerfully trained in how to fight and handle himself. They are often too quick to use deadly force because they lack the skill to disarm someone, and often they overreact.
Police also are not very effective in stopping crime, only at arresting people. They do little good at actually preventing what happens which leads to the arrest.
They do way to many useless things, or near to, like giving out parking tickets, and next to nothing to actually prevent crime. Arresting people obviously ain't working, let's do something else. Don't stop arresting the criminals, but for goodness sake, when there is no one to arrest, don't sit around with your buddies in a parking lot shooting the shit and drinking coffee, or catching u[p on your reading.
My overall impression of cops, they are quite lazy, and are more about cleaning up messes after the fact then preventing them before. They don't have much respect from me at all, sorry.
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