Being a good looking, strong, articulate white guy - I will be the first to say I've never had a bad interaction personally with the police.

Which includes one speeding ticket that I definitely earned and he even complimented my car and marked me down for 70 - not 94 - which he showed me on the gun - bike cop - nice guy - still welfare taxing me for harmless fun in my Model S.

I'm happy to consider an example of regular behind-the-scenes work you do that you think benefits an upper-middle class combat veteran with his own mini-arsenal in his bedroom closet.

If anything, I feel like the police monopolize violence against criminals, as I'd be interested (and successful) in forming vigilante groups within my community if the police 'magically stopped protecting us' one day.

Steal a bicycle, get a hand cut off.

Steal a car, get both cut off.

You protect criminals from good people who would nip all this shit in the bud really fucking fast.

You need criminals to pay and justify your livelihood.

Just like you need pot to be illegal and the "war on drugs" to exist.

The CIA trafficking cocaine/meth, to fuel a heinous culture that you end up making 'your life' off of. - It's all a joke to people like me.