I feel that we are worse off now than we were even 100 years ago. Here in Nicaragua, we have at least three different levels of policing within the police department with the lowest level directing traffic and being school crossing guards. The highest levels get to use military weapons and have the "honor" of accompanying the paramilitary (mercenaries and riff-raff private army of the gruesome twosome). There is another group of paramilitary charged with keeping "public order". Then you have the military "keeping the country free of interlopers. All cross boundaries and can shoot first and ask questions later. No-one is safe from these marauding forces...