The problem is, you don't want local preachers turning their congregations into their own personal armies. You don't want cult leaders becoming defacto judges. ...But that's exactly what you get when you leave enforcement of the law up to the people.
...But in the case of in-progress, happening right-in-front-of-you crimes? Empowering the citizen is the way to go.
What you don't want is people taking action on crimes they were told happened the night before, because that's how you get people making up stories to get other people killed.
They're also physically much closer. Therefore they could easily find themselves facing real consequences should they fuck up too badly. When it comes to shit done at the federal level, the ones responsible may as well be living on the moon.
Huh.
Whaddaya know?
Turns out community policing does work.
Policing by the government is a ~100 years experiment that has clearly failed.
The problem is, you don't want local preachers turning their congregations into their own personal armies. You don't want cult leaders becoming defacto judges. ...But that's exactly what you get when you leave enforcement of the law up to the people.
...But in the case of in-progress, happening right-in-front-of-you crimes? Empowering the citizen is the way to go.
What you don't want is people taking action on crimes they were told happened the night before, because that's how you get people making up stories to get other people killed.
They're also physically much closer. Therefore they could easily find themselves facing real consequences should they fuck up too badly. When it comes to shit done at the federal level, the ones responsible may as well be living on the moon.