The police aren't hired to protect you. They're hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That's their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they're going to make you safe? They weren't hired to make you safe.

Quote in Does Government Protection Protect? by Robert LeFevre, Fullerton: CA, Rampart Institute (Society for Libertarian Life edition), speech from 1978, published 1979, p. 16. - Does Government Protection Protect (1979)