> ...where the police dare not enter ...
Here, I've pinpointed the precise moment where their troubles began.
Here, I've pinpointed the precise moment where their troubles began.
Maybe they only have to take away one in hundred, the bad seed.
Where I grew up the police was free to come and go as they pleased. That did not stop plenty of bullying, lots of crime and a ton of bad influences being readily apparent and I credit my parents (even though they were divorced), the teachers in my school and my interest in technology for not going down some dumb path (most likely not to be a murderer though).
A friend of mine who grew up much the same did in fact end up in a different situation and had none of those advantages that I had, otherwise our situations are mostly interchangeable.
I mean, it is solvable. Firse, you enter the place. Then, you arrest criminals. Then, you rinse and repeat.
There are communities around the world which, while being very poor, only have petty crime. You just avoid nurturing crime tolerance.
10 police fail to sufficiently enforce national law in neighboorhood (either perceived or real, by lack of enforcement or lack of effective legislation)
20 disconnect between local populace and police grows
30 neighborhood starts relying on its own law enforcement
40 distrust between national law enforcement and neighborhood grows
50 local power grows, and local and national laws start drifting apart
60 goto 10
This happens in many locations. In a way, mafia and gangs start out from the same process: there is a local power group that challenges and rivals the national authority. Local county militia carry the same power, but they don't always challenge or interfere with national laws.
Equivalently, "police being unable to enter their neighborhoods shows that they are insufficiently law abiding".