You can write the law however you want, but it's the people holding the guns who decide how those laws are enforced that really decide what the laws are. The g

You can write the law however you want, but it's the people holding the guns who decide how those laws are enforced that really decide what the laws are. The glorification and deification of cops and soldiers as saint-like figures of pure virtue makes it that much easier. Ultimately the only real constraint on police and military power is mass civil disobedience, and technology and weaponry and mass surveillance can nullify much of that.