>> GD> This is the biggest problem with why gangs and crime can
 >> GD> thrive in  a neighborhood.
 >> GD>
 >> GD> No one wants to get involved.  If more people would get
 >> GD> involved or  at least call the police everytime something
 >> GD> happens, then it might  not happen in their neighborhood.
 >> Because they are law abiding people and the laws have
 >> disarmed them.  Two armed gang members can control a
 >> hundred unarmed people.
 > BM> Calling the police doesn't require arms.
 > And why don't most call the police?  Because they know
 > that the gang members can and will do bodily harm to
 > them because the caller has no way to protect himself.
Or else they have a couch-potato-with-a-TV mentality and look on it as grisly 
entertainment until or unless it actually affects them personally.
 > He is forced to rely on the police.  BTW, the courts
 > have ruled that the police are not required to protect
 > an individual.  IOW, the guy who has called the police
This was discussed in LAW some time ago.
 > is shXt out of luck if the gang members decided to
 > kick
 > in his door, rape his wife and kill his kids while he
 > dials 911.
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