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When people start policing the police force, don't they become....the police (by definition, not legality)? And therefore susceptible to becoming just like the
by kempbellt 6y ago
When people start policing the police force, don't they become....the police (by definition, not legality)? And therefore susceptible to becoming just like the "idiots/assholes" they were empowered to deal with.
Certainly an interesting recursion problem.
- salawat 6y agoThe solution to that is not having an "empowered" caste, and leaving it to a community to police themselves. Everyone tends to get nervous about that though.
- Aeolun 6y agoSomething about witch hunts and lynching perhaps?
- zorpner 6y agoBoth of these represent the same phenomenon as the modern police force, which is class oppression (in the first case anti-intellectual misogyny, in the second the same base racism underlying the current struggle). Communities can and will self-regulate, when let out from under the thumb of state-sanctioned violence.
- AuryGlenz 6y agoWhat is “the community” supposed to do if there’s a murder or rape?
- jatone 6y agono, because they don't have authority to police civilians. there is no recursion here. police force -> used to arrest dangerous criminals only police wardens -> used to review, charge, change police policy, and arrest police officers who violate the law. social officer -> used for all non-violent community enforcement. fines, ticketing, homelessness, mental health issues, etc. have no power to arrest anyone.