You're reading too much into what I'm saying.

There are other bags of food. There aren't other police forces. If the only food you had for the next, say, term of office was that bag of apples, you'd be tucking into it in short order rather than starve.

And to be a pedant, green/unripe apples are poisonous. They make you feel unwell; they just don't maim or kill you. Plenty of people would tuck into a bag of apples where some of them were still not yet ripe.

> There aren't other police forces.

That's the problem, combined with the fact that police forces are funded by force rather than by providing a service that people are willing to pay for.