I think that there is a place for the police too….in a best case scenario they would be well trained and respond appropriately to whatever the situation required without the perhaps excessive response from someone who is too close to the situation, whether victim, witness or whatever. The problem I have is that, at least here in Detroit, you are neither allowed to defend yourself nor can you rely on police protection. That is just fucked up, and a result of 50 years of one party rule here, and a clear, motivating factor for the exodus from the City. This isn’t, at all, racial, as more black people are fleeing than white people, and, to some degree black flight is partially compensated by white hipsters and artists and techies snatching up the generational wealth of the descendants of the great migration that is being practically abandoned by the grandchildren.