5.30.20

Modern law enforcement is a co-opt of corporatism and impotency to federal authority. Police are given the positionality of an agent of the state, but also as a laborer with its own union (unionized against whom however?). The identity crisis of the police officer flails around an insular construct of zeal and imasculation, performing as an embittered eunich.  

The card trick is as follows: a police officer is not obligated to give their life for their duty as a military officer is—rather quite the contrary. The police officer has full discretion to protect their own personal safety. So to “serve and protect” comes after a prerogative of self-preservation—a trecherously personal determination. Coupled with a weaponized advantage over the citizen, the prerogative of the police officer does not serve the citizen at all. The citizen has no checks and balances over the police officer, and microcosms of absolute power become plentiful.

If the duty of a police officer was to protect the citizen, on an oath of their life, there might be something more heroic at play. However, Federal power would not have a police force become as useful as a military force, and would not want police forces being organized with more cohesion than a vast complex of mercenaries. The divestment of nobility promised to military officers leaves police officers with the dignity of thugs.

The police officer’s mantra to “protect” is to protect property, as it is property in which governers and mayors are left to manage. The President manages the access to this property, and the access to the property of other soverigns. Sherifs and police officers are groundskeepers then, neurotically attending to any scratch or threat of blemish that satiates their miopic sense of purpose. 

Impotency of true duty to the citizen (or the state for that matter), conflated with a prerogative of entitlements as a paid union worker (unionized against the common citizen), indeed makes for some cruel cats prowling for the fat cats. We are but mice, with our meeps.