```So, yeah I no longer call police for anything, they won't do anything and if you keep calling they consider you a nuisance caller and can create problems for you. It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch. ```

Alternatively look at places where police does function properly and consider what's different.

Because what you can describe like your police compared to the police in some African hellhole or the police where I live can vary between unaccountable mercenaries perpetuating class imbalances, ghettoisation, etc or a well functioning local guardperson or a mob offering "protection"