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| − | Police are public servants who exist to impartially carry out the [[law]], for the benefit of all of society. | + | Police are public servants who exist to impartially carry out the [[law]], for the benefit of all of society. They exist to prevent crimes and quell violence. |
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| + | The name "Police ''Force''" yields insight into the assumptions behind the concept. As [[David Graeber]] summarises it: "Police are bureaucrats with weapons."<ref name=dg>The Utopia of Rules, [[David Graeber]]</ref> Police are arguably a relatively new invention, and have from their inception been focused on protecting the property of the rich (as might be expected from that fact that [[law]]s tend to have the same bias). | ||
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| + | "If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of us think about police, we do not think of them as enforcing regulations. We think of them as fighting crime, and when think of “crime,” the kind of crime have in our minds is violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it. I find this all the time in public discussions."<ref name=dg/> | ||
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| + | ==Police State== | ||
Increasingly many "[[democracies]]" are moving towards ''de facto'' [[police state]] status, while maintaining the trappings of [[civil society]] and [[party politics]]. | Increasingly many "[[democracies]]" are moving towards ''de facto'' [[police state]] status, while maintaining the trappings of [[civil society]] and [[party politics]]. | ||
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==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
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Contents
Official narrative
Police are public servants who exist to impartially carry out the law, for the benefit of all of society. They exist to prevent crimes and quell violence.
Problems
The name "Police Force" yields insight into the assumptions behind the concept. As David Graeber summarises it: "Police are bureaucrats with weapons."[1] Police are arguably a relatively new invention, and have from their inception been focused on protecting the property of the rich (as might be expected from that fact that laws tend to have the same bias).
"If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of us think about police, we do not think of them as enforcing regulations. We think of them as fighting crime, and when think of “crime,” the kind of crime have in our minds is violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it. I find this all the time in public discussions."[1]
Police State
Increasingly many "democracies" are moving towards de facto police state status, while maintaining the trappings of civil society and party politics.
Examples
The apparent indifference of the US Justice Department to the rampant violence of some police in the USA[2] have lead to allegations that the US is a Police state.
The UK Police is relatively much more restrained, though they are not without corruption and appear to be following the US model of yielding to the influence of big money, and have been co-opted by those pedalling the "war on terror".
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| Australia/Police | |
| Canada Border Services Agency | Canadian federal agency that is responsible for border protection and surveillance, immigration enforcement and customs services. |
| DEA | A police force focused on drugs. Many corrupt incidents have occurred with them. |
| European Gendarmerie Force | An operational, pre-organised, and rapidly deployable EU intervention force with military status - meaning mysterious foreign-speaking troops with no local connections are used to crush unrest. |
| France/Police | The French police |
| Immigration and Customs Enforcement | The US immigration service. Tasked with finding illegals, some reports have hinted it to be a front for sex trafficking. |
| Intelligence agency | The distinction between secret societies, intelligence agencies or international groups may be slightly moot on occasions. Many are officially allowed to commit serious crimes such as murder, and are subject to minimal effective oversight anyway. |
| Interpol | International police group. Several of the presidents of Interpol have been exposed as part of large corruption affairs, or engaged in torture. |
| Italy/Police | |
| NZ/Police | |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | |
| RCMP | The federal and national police service of Canada |
| Reich Security Main Office | |
| Royal Ulster Constabulary | |
| UK/Police | Police in Great Britain. |
| US/Police | The police in the United States of America have increasingly become a symbol for the militarization of the US. Their forces have often acted as middle-men for protecting, if not being used for SDS policies and is full with corruption due to political assignments. |
| Ulster Special Constabulary |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Ludovic Kennedy | “the adversarial system of justice in the UK and the United States "is an invitation to the police to commit perjury, which they frequently do"” | Ludovic Kennedy | 2003 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:PayPal Partnering With Anti-Defamation League to Share Info With Law Enforcement, Determine Who Can Use Their Services | Article | 26 July 2021 | Cassandra Fairbanks | The censorship industry colludes with law enforcement and financial services in order to censor more. |
- ↑ a b The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber
- ↑ See the Dallas occupy plot, for example
