About a couple of months after I moved into America, I visited a friend who studied at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He lived in a neighborhood that was just adjacent to some truly bad parts of town. And I vividly remember him showing me a blinking light midway down his street which kind of marked where police patrols were markedly cut off, and telling me I shouldn't walk beyond.

It was a bizarre moment. And it captured the absurdity of American cities for me, so I'll always remember it.

You're right. There needs to be more policing in these places. But also, policing that understands the neighborhood, otherwise all you'll get is more of the kind of infuriating, racist, human rights abuses that are American police shootings of black men.

I really really don't get America's pride in it's "men in blue" who are such panzies that they even shoot at 10 year old kids because they think their lives are threatened. And then demand respect for putting their life on the line. These morons should either get with the training and improve themselves, or the police forces should cut ties with them when they don't and end up killing innocents. The current situation is truly awful.