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The law supposedly protects the people's interest. Ideally. Unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world and I agree with you that in practice, law enforcemen
by jraph 1y ago
The law supposedly protects the people's interest. Ideally.
Unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world and I agree with you that in practice, law enforcement isn't always a net positive.
- Saline9515 1y agoPolice has its own subset of incentives and goals, and is not a transparent institution protecting citizens. It is made of humans that are prone to corruption, power abuse, ideological bias, and so on.
- jraph 1y agoPolice [...] is not a transparent institution protecting citizens It's its role, theoretically (I don't know about transparent, but protecting citizens for sure). Of course, the reality is not ideal.
- Saline9515 1y agoProblem is that theory very commonly doesn't match reality when dealing with humans. Police may prefer to suppress freedom to achieve its goal, which is crime reduction. Or it may stop caring about difficult or dangerous problems (say, drug dealing cartels), and reorient into harassing the civilian population for petty things, such as policing distasteful memes on the internet.