It has already been said better than I can say it:seamusTX wrote:Ever since the Guardian Angels were started (around 1980), certain police officials and professional fussbudgets have been complaining about "citizens taking the law into their own hands."
Sir Robert Peel wrote:Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.