Crime rate is so high,police are supposed to serve and protect?

Question

i recently asked a question why do we pay taxes to the police when they are supposed to protect and serve the citizens.they seem to be more concern about writing tickets,and i said they are not doing there jobs,but in realality they are it is not there fault.it is the mayor,or who ever is in charge of them,because they are given a qouta to write so many tickets. i know this because i have some police officer friends who told us this, me and my dad.im not writing this because i recently got a ticket,i have not had one in a long time.the reason is because i care about there being so much crime,and nothing is being done.i feel like the police officers need more freedom to patrol more in the neighborhoods,or the streets so that criminals will not easily commit crimes.knowing that police are more patroling,and they may not do any thing,just there presence more known would help.robbery seems to be the highest crime,people losing there lives because of this is just not right.

Answer 1

There are good cops and bad ones, just like with any other person. If they want to keep their jobs though, some may have to do things they are against.

Answer 2

As the others have all said, we don't have quota's.

You say ".i feel like the police officers need more freedom to patrol more in the neighborhoods,or the streets so that criminals will not easily commit crimes.knowing that police are more patroling,and they may not do any thing,just there presence more known would help."

And what better way to let the criminals know we are out there then to make traffic stops. If we were to just patrol without making a traffic stop the criminal just might not see us. When we make a traffic stop everyone sees us and everyone knows that they could be next.

Traffic stops are a vital law enforcement tool. They let the public, to include the criminals, know we are out there and we are watching. They also help us get a lot of criminals off the streets. Remember the Oklahoma City Bomber was arrested from a traffic stop.

Answer 3

First, police write tickets (especially speeding and other moving violation tickets) in order to prevent dangerous situations, like people driving too fast and having fatal accidents. If no speeding tickets were given out, a sizable portion of the population would always significantly speed and thus substantially increase the danger to everyone.

Second, police officers do patrol neighborhoods, as long as those neighborhoods are rich. The real problem is the inequitable way that police operate in rich an poor areas., along with the fact that poverty is what compels people to act illegally in the first place. If you eliminate poverty, bad education, and malnutrition first, then you significantly decrease the crime rate (particularly the violent crime rate). Then we need to start examining what really makes people violent and aggressive in the first place, and that will eliminate a lot more crime.

Answer 4

Quotas... I know of no agency that requires ticket quotas. For that matter, they could apply the same quota policy to robbery, domestics, drug offenses, or assaults. The problem you percieve is that of, what happens most often. You and I see traffic violations almost daily. Blatantly in front of our own eyes on a daily basis. At intersections, stop signs, parking lots, highways, ect. This must be targeted by police as most accidental deaths occur here.

A different style of policing, "community policing", focuses on police efforts within a community to gain freindship, trust, and improve communications between the police and the local community. It gets people talking with lawenforcment and eachother to develop plans and exchange information to help prevent more serious crime, at the verry least. This, is in addition to the regular traffic patrols that must go on daily.

Overalll there is a much higher proportion of traffic offenses that go on as compaired to serious crimes. So, your paying taxes does go to protect and serve. To protect you from drunk drivers, make people pay attention to traffic laws, keep people within the limits of traffic laws, to protect you and others from harm while on the road. Your taxes pay for the service of court documents, arrest warrants, capture of wanted criminals during a typical traffic stops, arrest of drunk drivers, weapon violations, assaults, domestics, and just plain being available. Depending on how bussy the officers are... some more than others.

Answer 5

We do not have quotas. I love the mythical Police friends everyone has that tell them all these great dark secrets of our profession.

In reference to the post below. It is true that the courts have ruled that in most cases (most cases) the police are not obligated to protect anyone. It would be unreasonable for me to expect an officer to show up in the nick of time to save me from a pistol totting robber (kind of like the way the cavalry use to show up and save the wagon train from the Indians in the old westerns). In many cases the Police are not going to catch the bad guy right as he commits the crime.

Furthermore, my salary is not dependent on how many citations I write. I get payed if I write one, none, or have to go on disability from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from writing so many citations. Much of the fines and fees collected from traffic offenses goes to the education system in my state. Blame those darn kindergarten kids and their need for milk and finger paint next time you get a ticket if you can't blame yourself.

Answer 6

Point one, people who violate traffic laws are breaking the law. Traffic law were written to keep people from having accidents. Accidents that kill, maim and cause millions in property damage every year. Tickets go up, accidents rates tend to go down. As to quota's I don't know where you live, but in Texas they are very illegal. And unless you have cold facts, and that does not mean "everybody they do" I'll thank you to give the police the same rights as anybody else. As in innocent til proven guilty.

Answer 7

Police legally are not required to protect you. For example, if you call the police because someone broke into your home, and the police dont show up, or take 2 hours to show up, and in that time you were raped, robbed, and abused, you cannot sue the police for failing to protect you.

In many situations, police are used as revenue generators, and their goal are to generate more ticket income than their own salaries.

There is no federal constitutional requirement that police provide protection, and in numerous cases against police for failing to protect citizens that is what the ruling was.

Police job by law is to arrest criminals, after the crime, for the good of the public.

Answer 8

I will address you Sir, since you claim to be a taxpayer,the cops you are referring to are Traffic Enforcement Group cops,their primary function is to enforce traffic rules,(be aware that mayors have deputised their very own traffic clowns, they are not member of the national police. although some of them are diligent in their work, but majority are plain extortionists, which some are being caught and charged by Another group of cops, the Operative cops.) Our police organization is divided into different branches to cater to specific functions,like.Traffic Management,Criminal Investigation and Detection,Intelligence,Forensics,Transnational Crime,Anti Illegal Drugs,Counter insurgency,Anti organize Crime,...Going back to your concern regarding the high crime rate specifically robbery,,it seems your suggesting that the police should be MORE visible, well in NCR There are about 15,000 COPS, compared to ???million inhabitants!!!!(do the math Sir, and include the workload to salary ratio.) that we are SERVING AND PROTECTING .....and we cops are TAXPAYERS too, taxes are AUTOMATICALLY deducted.... well i do sound like a whining,complaining son of a gun, but thats the way it is, the real COPS, woludnt have the time to sit here and answer your questions, they are probably out there Patrolling their beats, running after all sorts of criminals, doing follow up operations,conducting checkpoints,casing their criminal subjects,presenting their captured offenders to courts,silently doing their jobs, while being constantly maligned by the media for the wrong doings of a few despicable rotten idiots. well I presume that you are a reasonable person ,maybe a law abiding citizen,,we could not ask you to re allign PORK BARREL funds to UPGRADE the National Police capabilities, but you could maybe help good cops remain good cops, pray for their safety....and pray that the rotten idiots be claimed by their creator asap...hehehehe, a friendly suggestion to you sir, practice mixed martial arts, in case you caught a robber BEAT HIM as you please,(you can arrest a felon, it is called a citizens arrest,,,,a modified version is a lynch mob arrest,hehehehe, lesser liabilities. ..just kidding....AND you cant be charged by the CHR/ Commission OF COMMUNISTS Rights, or PLEB., PEOPLES LAW ENFORCEMENT BOARD,,( WONDER WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE? ) Have a good day sir. To Serve And Protect Advocate:) TSAPA

Answer 9

Ticket quotas have been ruled as unconstitutional in numerous court cases.

Traffic enforcement has been proven in numerous studies to save lives; it slows traffic down and keeps people from driving with their head up their rear end.

Not to mention the number of drug arrests, gun violations, and people wanted for serious crimes I have found by making a stop for a simple traffic violation.

Answer 10

Police don't serve us anymore they think we serve them - pay increases. My wife had a someone stalking her we tried to get help from the police in Dallas, they said they don't deal with that sort of thing so we had to move a few times. Police are criminals aiding criminals and stealing our money. I would have to say I support giving medals of valor to individuals who stand up and rid us of a cop when the cop violates the law. Police have learned it is more profitable to write tickets than to help someone when they are being robbed or raped. Police mentality - do it if it will make me money.