"Automated phone system should be brought in to report crimes. This would save money and ease pressure on the police."

In a time when violent crime sores, the question should be how to fight crime effectively, and not how to cut cost. After all, if cutting cost is what we want we should have no problem at all, just get the police off our streets and let citizens defend themselves. Then to justify the money that goes to the legal system, we can arrest all those citizens who harm criminals while trying to protect themselves. Alternatively, we can get rid of the legal system too. After all, if we can’t put in jails those sent there by the legal system, why bother at all?

Another option may be to privatise the police force. This seems to work very well in many third world countries. All you need to do is pay your own policemen and they will make sure you are protected. I just wonder if the government will agree to make it tax deductible, after all we will save government a great deal of money by not spending money on the police force.

On the other hand, why don’t we get rid of the government and use the money wasted on politician to pay the police. At least I know what the role of the police is, something I can’t confidently say about the government any more.