If the police do not have a legal obligation to protect us (U.S.), then why do they exist?

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After the Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson was acquitted, and then the inexplicable inaction of the Uvalde officers, I can’t help but wonder.

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I will probably get downvoted to oblivion even though this is not my personal opinion.

Police are a reactionary force by nature. Their job is not to stop people from committing crimes, it is to capture those who have already commit crimes so the state can punish them. If the act of catching them happens to involve stopping an active crime that is just a bonus.

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