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I've noticed a disturbing trend lately, and that has been the lack of policemen. Yes, I see them driving around giving people speeding tickets and parking tickets, but is this what police were inteded for?? How is this protecting and serving the public trust? In my personal opinion, and the opinion of a majority of the people that I have spoken with about this, a victimless crime should not even be considered a crime. Regardless, even if it is considered a crime, why do police waste their time taking radar on people driving 10 miles faster then they are supposed to be, when they could be out patrolling and preventing a possible murder or rape? Why is the police force out solve murder/rape/robbery, when it should be out trying to prevent it? When did our police force degenerate from trying to help and protect the common man, into something that is in essence a self serving money hungry political mechanism, and why has our society let this happen? Police are no longer doing what they were intended for. No more are they out to protect people, now their goal is to get more money for their city enforcing whatever law is convenient enough and will get them the most money. Why prevent a murder when there is no money in it? This is bad enough, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. With police doing racial profiling, and planting/contaminating evidence. Less than a week ago police illegally searched the car of a friend of mine. apparently he was pulled over because one of his back blinker lights was out, which he was not aware of. They asked him if he was using any drugs, and he said "no" because he hadn't been, then they asked if they could search his car, to which he responded "no". they hassled him for a while longer and then searched his car anyways. They of course found nothing, because there was nothing to find, then on top of all of that, they gave him a ticket for having the blinker out and snet him on his way. Now the dangerous criminal that my friend is required the attention of 3 police cars that were over an hour. Now you tell me, couldn't the attentions of the police been better used elsewhere during this incident, especially when there was an armed robbery of a gas staion across town at the exact same time? (I found out about the robbery later, on the news) Some sort of drastic action needs to be taken to amend this gross disregard for the public welfare. Maybe we need to amend some of the idiotic, pointless, and/or antiquated laws that our society foolishly clings to, or maybe we need a drastic restructuring of our entire legal/law enforcement system, or most likely we need a combination of both, but something must be done. I urge all Americans and everyone for that matter to think long and hard about your current law enforcement agencies, and ask yourself how well they serve their inteded purpose. You might be quite surprised by the answers you get.