After the Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson was acquitted, and then the inexplicable inaction of the Uvalde officers, I can’t help but wonder.
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If there is no force to make you comply then laws are just suggestions and there is no society, it’s just an anarchic and self-destructive mess.
Police are the strength of the State applied to its population for public order and law enforcement. Protection of the people is usually in their mission but that’s not the primary imperative that caused the creation of a law enforcement force.
For example, the strength behind Law is what makes contracts valuable. No contract no trade, just rob or raise your own food.
Even pirate ships had a form of law enforcement, it’s very common in human group to keep the group collapsing unto itself due to competing interests and immediate needs of individuals. On the other hand the political philosophy of anarchism studies potential societies with little or no such power dynamics (stateless societies).
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