Can't expect the state to do everything for you. Those who can't protect themselves are the ones neighbors and deputies need to be looking out for.
As for cutting the sheriffs office, I say good. They have become bloated with all the jail deputies supervising every pot-head and other petty criminal. It's time the judges start putting ankle bracelets on the morons, turn the illegals over to ICE, and lock up only the truly dangerous. Locking up drug users, probation violators, shoplifters, and other assorted morons for extended periods of time makes little sense. Far better to put them on house arrest with work release if they are people who have jobs.
One of the local housing areas was getting alot of mail theft, somebody hand painted a sign saying “Thieves will be shot”.
I figured by now somebody would make them take it down, but it’s still there. Been over a year now.