The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Police reform is working, and crime is falling.
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.