Aside from a sheriff and a posse there's no real need for roving bands of armed marauders known as "police departments". The actual purpose of municipal police departments is the protection of state interests not that of citizens. Municipalities don't really have any kind of legal right to unleash roving marauders on citizens it's something that's occurred over the course of time. This idea of "defunding" the police still misses the point of the shady legal basis whereby police departments are even allowed to exist.
If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.
Sheriffs and posses, since municipal police departments don't actually protect or serve anyone except themselves, law abiding and well armed citizens are all that's needed to protect and serve a civil society. Also, citizens with technology and the use of civil tort. Most criminal cases are better suited for resolution in civil court, where the victims would receive financial compensation, and those unable to pay would be subject to enslavement in accord with the 13th Amendment. Why should anyone no matter their crime spend their time idle in prison when they could be put to work and perhaps even be rehabilitated? This would also have the effect of ridding the nation of for-profit prisons.
If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.
If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.
I may be older than most. I may say things not everybody will like.
But despite all of that. I will never lower myself to the level of Liars, Haters, Cheats, and Hypocrites.
Philippians 4:13 I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me: