>From: "Peter K." <peterk at enteract.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Note to the "ladder of force left"
>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:01:16 -0500
>
>I know if I lived in the ghetto I would hope and desire for some police
>presence and criminal justice framework - not of the Cincinati or
>L.A. variey of course - along with economic development. Its much,
>much easier to take the long view when the worst thing that has
>happened to you is that you've been mugged.
Uh-huh. And even easier to take your view when you haven't lived in the ghetto? It's really ironic that you would be contemptuous of her example out of experience after profferring mere speculation.
Anyway, she didn't happen to say it was the worst thing that had happened to her, and your speculation does not falsify her point, which was "The main purpose of the police is not to protect people from those who commit theft, robbery, rape, murder, etc., though in a limited number of cases it may accidentally protect a few of us."
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