What kills me about all this is how it feels like we're being assaulted on every front. Everybody is simultaneously trying to brainwash and addict our kids and and scam our parents and sell us illegal goods shipped direct from China and constantly harass us to try and con us out of our money and meanwhile the government can't even do automated enforcement on speed limits much less fraud and professional crime.

I have no visibility on what the cops do all day but I assume it's mostly reactive triage for people on the margins of society that are in crisis, with varying approaches of support vs punitive harassment. But I doubt that Ford's plan to expand cops and prisons will help.

Which leaves me wondering who's in charge of making sure kids can't buy weapons from Amazon, or stores can't them ferocious amounts of energy drinks.