OR KILL THEM AND PUT THEIR HEADS ON STICKS AS A WARNING TO OTHERS, SINCE THERE ARE NO COPS TO INTERFERE: Minneapolis Police Advise: Surrender Your Property to the Criminals and Obey Them. Remember: Ultimately, cops aren’t there to protect the community from criminals. They’re there to protect criminals from the community. Communities dealt with crime for millennia before police were invented, usually with rather limited due process.