What If Your Posse Showed Up Just Then?

I've made no secret on this blog, as an anarchist, my views that we need no police, they being a recent development in the experiment of government, one that demands reform, as one police chief noted, every twenty years or so. People cannot imagine no police, only because they have no knowledge of the better alternatives that have been in place in the last 5000 years.

A while back a lad was desperately negotiating with me, offering to quit his job if I did not call the police.  I stopped his negotiating by telling him since I was not his employer, I was in no position to negotiate his employment status.  But, I assured him, "I never call the police."

He was so relieved, until it dawned on him what I meant. Indeed, the police called me to advance their investigation.  Sorry, not interested. He was fired by his employer anyway, and he left town.

Now comes an idea that should have come a long time ago...

“I’m curious,” one of our friends, Hannah McCoy, said in response, “as to why people call the cops when they feel unsafe. The average response time is 10-20 minutes. And in that amount of time, if someone really wanted to break into your place, rape you, harm you, steal from you… they would be done and gone.”
“Why not,” McCoy says, “purchase a gun and train yourself how to use it so you are self-sufficient and can protect yourself?”
Indeed. Self-defense is the first step to keeping you and your family safe from home intruders.
But as you’ll see today, there’s another — even more powerful — action you can take to help keep you and your loved one’s safe.

I myself have no use for smartphones and apps, but this one looks good.  I still use a flip phone, for UBER and Siri and directions, etc are no draw for me.  If people keep coming up with apps like this, well...  I might have to rethink my 2001 time capsule.

I can think of plenty of young ladies, being hassled, would delight in seeing her dad, a cousin, her next door neighbor and a couple of his drinking buddies show up.

The auto industry knows that no "safety feature" since the seat belt has ever improved auto safety.  The problem is with each "advance" (air bags, abs brakes, etc) drivers "spend" the safety margin with ever more reckless driving.  Would such an app encourage the defenseless to run more risks?

As usual, another problem is the police might monitor this channel and show up too, escalating the danger.  This is another reason why we need super encryption the hegemon cannot crack (if there ever was such a thing).

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