I'd rather not slander police as a group, just a few individuals who uphold the law about as much as the Hells Angels do. I live in a small town with about 3 police active at any given time.

In Langford, the neighbouring city, population and therefore development has increased a lot in the last 10 years or so. So what used to be a small town with peaceful grow-ops every 20 feet (not unlike where I live) has turned into an armpit of a society.

I go there to visit a friend, maybe twice in a month. I've already jumped by tweakers about 3 times, each time getting closer to being stabbed. The useless Langford police have a gigantic police station (it looks more like a concentration camp) in the city centre, presumably to impress their powerful presence upon Langford's citizen's. The funny thing is the meth kids all hang out at a gas station across the road from the cop station, and the police do nothing about it.

Yet there is a new grow op bust in the papers every week, as if that somehow makes the city a safer place to be. Meanwhile the crackheads and tweakers multiply like cockroaches, while the local police do nothing. Just the other day my best friend was once again jumped by a group of speed freaks, and the only reason he's still alive and uninjured is that one of the tweakers overdosed in the middle of the street in front of him and had to be dragged off.

I could go on and on, but I won't bore you any longer. Lets just say that the police aren't always as useful as they'd have you believe.