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ManiacJoe

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12. He is very serious and very correct.

Reply to gregcrawford (Reply #8)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 08:11 PM

Feb 2015

The job of the police is to protect and serve society as a group by investigating crimes after they occur and by arresting the suspects for trial.

The protection of the individual persons is the responsibility of the individuals, not the police.

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