[Steve_Seattle]

"Is it worth a $2000 a year or more to have police protection?"

A hard question to answer, since we don't know (at least I don't think we know) what kind of deterrent effect on crime that the mere existence of a police force exerts. Is it substantial or minimal?

[FreedomPoster]

See my previous. Go thru the math with your property tax line item bill, and the police portion of your local govt budget. The numbers should be fairly easy to find.

[apoliticalone]

The town I grew up in had one officer w 5K pop. Idon’t recollect any complaints of abuse and no dogs shot, little to no crime, no militarization of police. The growth in law enforcement has been a byproduct of the enforcement industry that resulted from the war on drugs and our never ending highly profitable war on terror

Freedom does not come with a police state. Society has been manipulated by those who have learned to profit at the expense of freedom.

Go to your local jurisdiction and see how much of the budget goes towards “public safety”.