Although they break the law they can be helping the community. They can discover and stop child porn, they can keep people from committing crimes within their neighborhoods, and they can keep illegal immigrants from crossing our borders. But sometimes these people take it way too far. They start using lethal force or they accuse innocent people based on race or ethnicity. People can get too serious and take the place of the official law enforcement. People soon fear the “safety” of neighborhood watches and flee from the cities. So vigilantes good and bad are a problem. The cause disputes over what laws are ethical or worthy to follow and sometimes people will follow these vigilantes. These occasionally helpful but unlawful citizens can be harmful, helpful dangerous, and very hard to deal with at the same
Although they break the law they can be helping the community. They can discover and stop child porn, they can keep people from committing crimes within their neighborhoods, and they can keep illegal immigrants from crossing our borders. But sometimes these people take it way too far. They start using lethal force or they accuse innocent people based on race or ethnicity. People can get too serious and take the place of the official law enforcement. People soon fear the “safety” of neighborhood watches and flee from the cities. So vigilantes good and bad are a problem. The cause disputes over what laws are ethical or worthy to follow and sometimes people will follow these vigilantes. These occasionally helpful but unlawful citizens can be harmful, helpful dangerous, and very hard to deal with at the same