For more of Stross on Peel, here he discusses Peelian principles after the Ferguson police killed Michael Brown - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/20

For more of Stross on Peel, here he discusses Peelian principles after the Ferguson police killed Michael Brown - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/08/ferguson.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/08/ferguson... . "It seems to me that if they’re not committed to the Peelian principals, then they’re not a police force: they’re something else." Also, from http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/crib-sheet-419rule-34.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/crib-she... : > I will note that modern policing in the British Isles, as largely established by Sir Robert Peel with his reforms and the Peelian Principles, was in no small part a reaction to the previous practice of crime suppression via a system of badly-enforced but brutal and draconian punishments (the Bloody Code) and freelance thief-takers (such as Jonathan Wild, who per wikipedia "invented a scheme which allowed him to run one of the most successful gangs of thieves of the era, all the while appearing to be the nation's leading policeman"). > Seriously, go read up on Jonathan Wild and the legal climate he operated in. It wasn't so much corrupt as broken by design, and very badly so: the analogies with the private "corrections" industry in the USA today should be glaringly obvious.