Reply #22: But what if there were no police? [View All]

Would you want to live in an anarchistic society?

It's true I can't relate to your experiences as a Latino - but I've been in the middle of a riot (Piedmont Park, Atlanta, in the 70s). I've been on the wrong end of a gun. When my enraged boyfriend attacked me with a butcher knife in a tavern, I would never have been safe from him again, if the police had not taken him away. Or my friends would have taken matters into their own hands and committed murder for me - I would not want to have lived with that.

My point is that you can't live in a society that doesn't have laws, and laws have to be enforced. I don't deny that there are bad policeman. I certainly don't deny, being from Georgia, that there are racist policemen. But there has to be law, and there has to be people that enforce the law. Otherwise it comes to an "only the strong survive" world, and strong as I am, I wouldn't want to live in that world.

I'm truly sorry for your father's experience. A child should never have their parents taken away for such a flimsy, unjust reason.