You know back before we had an organized police force we had militias and pretty much it was assumed that it was everyone's job to raise a hue and cry and it was seen as your responsibility as a citizen of a republic to apprehend the criminal yourself if you see a crime happening. That's what it was back before the mid 1800s when basically the robber barons hired their own private armies to basically police the lower classes and to separate the people who had to work from a living from the people who lived off of The cops aren't there to protect you they are there to stop you from exercising your rights
You know back before we had an organized police force we had militias and pretty much it was assumed that it was everyone's job to raise a hue and cry and it was seen as your responsibility as a citizen of a republic to apprehend the criminal yourself if you see a crime happening. That's what it was back before the mid 1800s when basically the robber barons hired their own private armies to basically police the lower classes and to separate the people who had to work from a living from the people who lived off of The cops aren't there to protect you they are there to stop you from exercising your rights