That makes two of us. I don't know where these cop-lovers live, but obviously those places suck if you have no choice but to show deference to the police because you're so afraid of all the "bad people" in your area. Like Plommer, I find my fellow criminals/subversives to be infinitely more trustworthy than the cops, and it's because the cops have a license to steal and they know it. I've never lived in a place, not even Portland, that had an area where I'd fear to be if there weren't police nearby.
To illustrate my point, recently a lady was being carjacked on a side street a few towns north of me. She didn't have to wait for or hope that the cops would intervene, because before the guy could even get the door open with her keys, an ordinary townsperson had pulled over and run up to beat the ever-loving piss out of that shit stain. That's how things should be everywhere, people worrying more about the safety of others than the criminal charges that they might be brought up on if they execute some street justice.
Since people are lazy, the only way to get us there is to seriously scale back the role of the police, returning them to a reactive force as opposed to a proactive deterrent. I'd settle for just stripping police of their arrest powers for anything but violent crime. Daft brags about catching car thieves, but if you park where you can't watch your car or drive something so expensive as to make itself a target, it sounds like you're asking for trouble to begin with. It only seems logical to me that if you want to flaunt your assets, you should either protect them yourself or don't live where it's going to incite the jealousy and retaliation of the common man.
If a drug dealer wants to flaunt his wealth by wearing bling and riding on dubs, he generally caries a gun and is prepared to use it to ward off hooligans. If he parks on the street, you can bet it's within sight of where he's going to be. However, if a businessman wants to do the same thing, he goes the lazy route and just allocates some tax dollars to pay a pawn to wander the streets and get a hard-on whenever he sees someone committing a crime.
Now in principle I'm okay with that, you should be able to buy slaves (Daffy, et. al.) with your money, just like sex. The problem is when the organism which is the police inevitably holds the taxpayers hostage monetarily by insisting on bigger budgets and broader authority in order to continue providing that false security. They demand tougher laws with mandatory sentences to ensure a steady supply of criminals to round up. Those laws get created to stigmatize and oppress certain segments of the populace, who then see little benefit in playing by the rules anymore because they can feel in their bones that they're being taken advantage of. If you know you're being taken advantage of and don't rail against the injustice, then you need to buy some fake testicles and place them in the fleshy sack hanging empty behind your cock.
Cops are a metastatic cancer on society, breaking down the bonds which should make us all willing to pull over in the middle of our busy days and whip the piss out of a random wannabe carjacker.