CHAIRPERSON
Well the community doesn't get involved, does it, in deciding how it is to be protected.   The SDU, from what we gather, patrolled the township as part of the process of protecting the community.   Now, there was the killing of Blanko, which was a threat to the peace in the township, which the SDU had set themself up to maintain.  Therefore, in order to restore peace, they had to round up those who were responsible and kill them, so that the killing of the deceased was part of the process of achieving their larger objective, namely to maintain peace and protect the community against what they then perceived as being criminal elements within the community.