“Police forces have lost their most important competitive advantage.”
Yes, they have. They’ve also lost the will or ability to do the job in many instances. So let me pose the question: why do I or my family need them? Why should I pay ever increasing taxes for “protection” that won’t respond or can’t respond quick enough? Nostalgia?
Lots of things become obsolete over time. Horses and buggies, betamaxes, land line phones, vacuum tube radios, etc. Perhaps police are finding their obsolescence as well. They’re a relatively recent phenomenon anyway.
You people are looking for answers in all the wrong places. The problem is a complete failure of liberalism and liberal policies, moral relativity and forced egalitarianism.
Riots, flash mobs and gang violence all have their roots in moral relativity, which is nothing more than moral anarchy. Police can do little to prevent the violence, only clean up after the fact.
This is the first time in history where man has tried to build a society without GOD and the result is a disaster. Man has not just lost his moral compass, we have rejected.
Man, alone, is incapable of being the arbiter of good and evil. All man can do is decide legal and illegal. An ordered society requires more than that.
Vigilante justice is just another form of moral relativity (unless you are protecting yourself or others).