It can operate well with small governments, yes

It’s be strange if there was neither a police nor a sheriff

Sheriffs are elected officials though

so it's different

@ᚴᚬᚾᛁᚾᚴ ᚱᚢᚦᚴᚨᚱ (Hrothgar) What situation is police intervention necessary?

As soon as criminals organize into... an organized crime organization... you, as an individual, are outgunned.

For example in case of a property dispute one civilian recruits an army of 40 men from his own money and mounts an assault on a single guy who has not yet recruited his own army.

Yeah

@DanielKO Your whole society and town should be an organized Civil organization

What if they choose to be neutral?

Then the natural right of that guy has been forfeited by default.

These things actually happen a lot in my land.

Well your land is still ran by savages, so...

In villages semi feudal men often can do that to one man

That's a great idea. We should all organize into a civil organization. Some people will be in charge of maintaining peace, they'll be trained into the use force, about laws, etc. We'll call them not-the-police.

Then the rest of the people can worry about other things in their life.

We are not talking about the west alone are we?

@DanielKO lol yeah, I was explaining how police force is delegated from the populace

I am totally with that but the government or an organization needs to regulate the militia

@ᚴᚬᚾᛁᚾᚴ ᚱᚢᚦᚴᚨᚱ (Hrothgar) Who regulates the regulators?

Through payment and make it their job.

The public through legislations and a perfectly working democratic system.

The public can regulate the regulators by deposing them through elections.

"perfectly working democratic system." gonna have to stop you right there bud...

@Deleted User It was meant to be sarcastic lol

And a plitician is supposed to stop a guy from creating a posse to take over people's property?

He already paid off 40 guys

he can pay off 40 cops

And your small posse is going to stop my even bigger posse?

very true but so can one militiaman

Right...

Everyone already has their own posse: It's called their community

The point of paying off a shit ton of people is very hard

Which is why an organization of such men is needed.

So such infiltrations are hard

Of course it can be possible but it is raising stakes

@ᚴᚬᚾᛁᚾᚴ ᚱᚢᚦᚴᚨᚱ (Hrothgar) YOu're advocating for an organzied volunteer militia to maintain a presence throughtout the area.

Yes, it's a good idea

It can either be controlled by a public institution which we call the government or it can be private as well as long as that private institution is trusted

People will have guns to protect themselves from such organized militia in case they feel their intervention is unjustified.

The US invented a thing called 'seperation of powers' that decentralizes power down to the smallest level