The event that caused the greatest impact in the last 24 hours was undoubtedly the murder of a police officer in Újbuda. Many opinions appeared about the sad event. Most of them advocated that the police should be paid, that they should have adequate equipment, that even more police should be on the streets for public safety.

Most people agree with all of this, but the commentators forgot about one thing. In addition to money, commas, and paripa, the authority of the police should be returned, which disappeared with the regime change, saying that we are not a police state. (Except October 23, 2006) However, together with the motto we serve and protect, legal situations arose in which the police officers who took action could go wrong, they were questioned as to why they acted in this way, why they handcuffed the person, why they took out their weapons, etc. This is how we got to the point where the police didn't take any action if they didn't have to, rather they went the other way in the case of a situation that looked messy.

So, if, in addition to good pay and equipment, properly prepared physically and especially psychologically trained policemen protect public safety, who, when they take action, do not first think of why they will be held responsible, because the person I acted against files a complaint, then over time, if properly, but they act with sufficient determination, they will have authority.

Of course, the liberals would protest immediately, saying that there are human rights, there is the rule of law, and the poor man was only defending himself against aggressive action. We could list the counter-arguments for a long time, but this does not console the family members and colleagues of the dead policeman. Let's add to this that others have the right to a calm, safe, non-aggressive life and this is the majority.

In order to achieve authority, correct determination is necessary. Let's remember when bank robbery was a kind of fashion in the 2000s. Until, in 2007, the robber who also took the hostages in the bank branch on Széna Square was finally shot. After that, bank robberies stopped, because those thinking about robbery realized that they could even shoot.

Of course, you don't have to shoot at all costs, but it wouldn't hurt to practice, for example, how in several countries, one of the police officers on duty, a few steps behind his partner, spectacularly unholsters his gun holster, while the other one walks over and checks. And the heat buzzer knows that it's not worth waving, because there could still be trouble.

Honest, decent citizens - who have nothing to fear - believe that there is no need for such a left-liberal approach as, for example, in Belgium, where according to the regulations, criminals cannot be certified or arrested between 11 pm and 5 am, because they have the right to rest. These are pseudo-democratic measures, let's forget them. There and in the eroding West, they do not know the idea that Kálmán Mikszáth formulated:

"Nothing, not even money, runs out as quickly as respect and authority, once you start spending it."

Well, experts should stop this spending and steer it in the right direction.

Featured image: Candles are lit in memory of Sergeant Major Péter Baumann. Photo: Zoltán Máthé / MTI