Well, only a complete idiot will enlist to serve and protect in the police farse knowing full well that he puts his arse on the line and the assailant will get off with a three year slap on the wrist. That's some deterrent... In USA, I believe, an assault on police officer would result in 25 to life. A teenager throwing concrete from overpass wouldn't have served a single digit time either. More likely he would have been sentenced as adult and ended up behind bars for good. Oh, well...
"People are stupid ... almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true ... they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so all are easier to fool." -- Wizard's First Rule
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