The Perversion of the Police

By Thomas Jonesmith

Police are an organization created by society to enforce law.  It is there to protect and to serve.  It is founded for high ideals, for compassion, to fight crime, and maintain the social order.  For all its goodness, it can be subverted into something horrible, counter to civilization, and to harm society.  Here in this book, we will explore the nature of police and how it can be subverted as well.  This is a study in social science.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Voigt
• Release date: Apr 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215692189

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To thinkers of government and students of police science.

Epigraph:

"A government is an institution established to run a state, to rule in the name of the people, and also to serve the people as a means of civilization.  It is there to serve men, be staffed by men, and be for the good of men.  However this is not always the case.  Officials of a government are only human.  They are swayed by all matter of things like greed, status, ambition, power, lust, vengeance, and other qualities.  Because men are swayed by this they can abuse power, public trust, and positions in government.  There are many governments in the world ruling nations, tribes, supernational organizations, and other groups.  In all these governments, perversion is a steady problem that can be fought by means of law and force.  Despite this perversion continues to haunt government and most any government on Earth suffers from its cancer in some way or form.' -talk on politics

'The police are a wing of government meant for social control.  Its commission is to fight crime, to monitor for problems, to enforce laws, and to be a kind of security guard force overseeing a community or political entity.  It would have powers like arresting, advising, using lethal force, issuing warning, directing traffic, combating criminal activities, and more.  It is founded for goodness, social control, serving Man, and serving society.  However like any government or human institution, it is prone to ills like corruption, perversion, greed, excess, waste, and other problems.  This translates into troubles like police brutality, committing murder hiding behind the badge, engaging in crime while on patrol, intimidation, menace, and other dramas.  Police walk a fine line in enforcing the law, but having to show respect, politeness, and care over what they do.  People for the most part respect and love their police, they do not see them as criminals, though there is a possibility they can go on to be the very criminals they are sworn to patrol for.'    -talk on  police

'Government is what it means.  It is there to govern, make laws, and order the state.' -talk on politics

Preface:  Government

There is an institution established by nations to rule over people.  It is known as government.

There would exist a study to this known as government theory.  It is taught as a domain of sociology, political science, criminal justice, anthropology, and other studies.  It discusses the nature of government, its mission, laws, departments, it purpose for founding, and other issues.  It discusses the kinds of government that rule states like nations, kingdoms, empires, city-states, tribes, theocracies, royal states, and the like.  It is a complex study into the nature of government and why governments are instituted about the world.

Virtually every society on Earth has a government.  It can manifest as anything like a monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, tribal government, high council, or something else.  It will consist of leaders able to make laws, decree, judge, establish posts, grant commissions, and administer the state.  Government types generally are organized according to pyramids with power, law, and authority emanating from the top extending down to the base to the people.  A government can manifest as anything, but in all visions it is there to rule a state, to order the people, to run departments for the welfare of the state and the people, and to sustain its operations for the longevity of the state.

A government's main mission is to rule the people and establish a state.  A state can manifest as anything like a kingdom, empire, principality, democratic state, communist state, dictatorship, khanate, church state (theocracy), tribe, city-state, and the like.  A state has qualities like a capital, cities, territory, borders, people, government institutions, a currency, seals and identifiers, airspace, coast, police, courts, and much more.  Leaders of a state can be anyone like a czar, king, emperor, president, pontiff, Dalai Lama, patriarch, prince, lord, baron, chieftain, and the like.

A government will have organs that can do all manner of function like:

-makes laws -enforce laws -punish criminals -engage in diplomacy -order the state -establish institutions -commission officials -use a military -levy tax -declare the rights of the people -run executive departments -engage in politics -make judicial decisions -establish a currency, and much more.

Governments tend to come in levels like national, state, county, and municipal.  Each level is inferior to the other and generally obeys the directives of the 'higher' government.

Many governments generally have 'wings' emanating from a single power source.  A government can generally be subdivided into wings called court, king, and congress.  The court handles affairs like crime, citizenship status, conflicts of citizens, and petty affairs of citizens.  The king rules the state by decree and tends to be its highest level.  He may be a monarch or a president, some principal personality supreme over society able to use the military and do monumental acts.  The congress tends to be a council making laws, debating, politicking, and confronting the many social issues.  Each wing influences the other and together they act to be a government ruling the state.

Governments seek to maintain the order of the state, protecting its institutions and the people.  For this it commissions a military to confront threats to a state.  Threats can consist of domestic (interior) and foreign (exterior).  Kinds of threat can be anything like:

-anarchy -criminals -pirates -terrorists -murderers -gangs -spies -domestic terrorists -insurgents -rebels -militias -smugglers -drug dealers -revolutionaries, etc.  A military can manifest as anything like an army, navy, police, marines, infantry, coast guard, air force, and national guard.  It is to be authorized by a leader, it is consecrated to use force, and its mission is to suppress the threat and restore order.  Most any government commissions a military.

Governments commission inferior officials to act its roles, authorities, and powers.  Kinds of official and authority a government may commission are:

-a postal service (mail) -ambassadors (representatives to politick with foreign nations) -tax collectors -generals and admirals (military leaders)

-a military (army, navy) -judiciary (judges) -inspectors -secret agents and spies -housing authority -ombudsman (complaints) -recreation department

-veteran's administration -prisons, jails (corrections) -a coast guard -a national guard -police -park rangers and park service -investigative panels

-border patrol -legal authorities like a public defender, district attorney, coroner -courts -city hall -highway commission -police commission

-a treasury -federal reserve (national bank) -forest service -natives and tribes commission -wildlife refuges -immigration and citizenship bureau, etc.

Governments seek to rule a people and order a state.  They discuss topics, establish authority, and concern themselves with issues like:

-law -order -judging crime -levy tax -granting pardon and clemency -declaring war -concluding peace -treaties -establishing roads and post offices

-establishing parks -establishing penalties -defining citizenship -granting titles -establishing authority -commissioning officials -electing officers

-removal of officers -promotion and demotion -establishing seals and banners -resolving disputes -commissioning structures -establishing police and military

Governments tend to be run by concerned, upstanding citizens.  They may gain their positions by election, appointment, or other means.  They serve in whatever capacity their position of government decrees.  For positions like a royal family, persons of this gain their position by birth and inheritance.  Sometimes they may be exempt from law, protected by law, or can make law at their discretion.  Despite this most positions of government are usually filled by positions due to election, qualifications, merit, appointment, or some other means.

Government for the most part is established to rule a state.  It is there to 'bless' its citizens, protecting them, ordering them, creating a standard of civilization, uplifting them with idealism, and giving the people an identity to belong to.  It is there generally as a means to establish civilization and establish the state.

For this government is meant overall to be 'noble', something established for the 'good' of men who are a state's citizens.

In modern nations there would be established a charter called a constitution.  It is a document establishing the state, consecrating government, but also it discusses how the government is to operate.  It would establish branches like a president, congress, and judiciary.  It will establish protocols on how to make laws, establishing offices, vesting powers, establishing authority, giving rights, and in all just discussing how the state is to be ordered.  It would appear in the USA and in time many nations would go on to have one.  It is made supreme over a nation and the government takes its mission, authority, and directives from it.  In all it was established in order to establish a state, ordering, defining a government, and defining its people.

Citizens for the most part look to their government as a kind of 'parent'.  It is there to be respected, obeyed if it orders, and honored as part of 'family'.  Citizens tend to 'love' their nation, identify with their nation, and honor their nation.  They can honor it in displaying flags, listening to official speeches, paying taxes, and obeying decrees of state.  For this the citizen wants to be patriotic with his nation.  As part of his patriotism, he has to obey his government.  His government is there to order the state and it is the citizen's civic duty to obey the decrees of its government.

Governments have been established in all manner of age and society like:

-ancient Egypt -Mongol empire -the Aztec empire -Rome -classical Greece -the Ottoman empire -Germany -Russia -Britain -France -USA, and other places.

Governments can manifest as most anything like:

-an absolute monarchy -democracy -dictatorship -party dictatorship -papacy -tribal council -pharaonic monarchy -city-state, and much more.  Each kind of government has its order, theory, power structure, and traditions.

A church-state is where a government and religion are united as one.  Here a national leader is also a pontiff.  He is there to rule the state, but he also administers a faith ordaining clerics as well.  A leader may believe he is chosen by God, decreeing on behalf of God.  Here his word is absolute law, there can be no dissent as all authority comes from God passing through the leader.  It would manifest in all manner of age like ancient Egypt (the pharaoh), the Roman Catholic Church (Vatican), and others as well.

If government were to fall, then most likely the result is anarchy.  Here central authority collapses and in its power vacuum all kinds of intrigue can occur.  Here inferior officials, rebels, or others can plot to seize the government.  They install a 'dictator' to take power.  He is made supreme and inferior officials rally to him and accept his authority, ruling the state.  If not anarchy can fluorish creating a reign of terror.  Here the people go lawless, become criminal, engaging in rioting, looting, violence, and wanton crime.  Citizens in a situation like this band together and become vigilantes.  They impose themselves as 'police' as 'law and order', taking the law into their own hands.  They as an 'armed mob' can round up 'criminals' and 'convict' sentencing many to death.  They may choose a 'leader' to seize power and thereby attempt to reestablish a state.  In all when a government collapses, anarchy and lawlessness replaces it and loses for this fact.  In time government