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COP TRIBE

I hope you fear the police.  And I’ll explain why.  But first, a little background.  My father was a cop most of his twenty years to a pension ( he started out in youth corrections ).  My best friend growing up had a father in the Sheriff’s department ( he was also a junior pig [ Explorer ] and then became a cop ).  And of course I was an MP in the Army.  I didn’t have an aptitude for it, being far too analytical and not reactive enough, but they didn’t test for that and I had to figure it out on my own.  I might not have been a “real” cop, but I know the culture enough to comment on it.  Most likely, had I been a LEO outside the military, I would be TOO close to the culture to judge it without prejudice, so there is that.

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Most cops are not bad people.  Most are professionals ( you only ever really hear about the bad ones, don’t you? ).  Most joined the job to help people.  But just as the Catholics started out really good and then became politically corrupted, the police can start out with the best intentions and then bend under the institutions demands.  And when that institution was decent, this wasn’t an issue.  The fact that it isn’t today is more a reflection on our society than it is about the character of law enforcement.  Plus, the police are a tribe.  They used to be a national tribe but now are splintered.  These two fundamentals are why police are now feared rather than revered. 

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I’m not concerned with their appointed power.  Everybody understands power dynamics, since you had and are parents, were married, have a boss and etcetera.  You understand that in ANY relationship, those with power can use it arbitrarily.  A cop can easily screw with you or make your life difficult.  So can your boss or the wife or even your child.  The only difference between cops back in the day and now is that society wasn’t as dysfunctional.  Cops still had the potential to abuse their power but didn’t have to.  Today, it a lot of situations they must, if only to continue to keep the peace. 

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A lot has been made of the abuse of police power to advance themselves economically ( asset forfeiture laws, primarily, the continued abuse with the War On Drugs ), but this ignores that everybody is pretty much doing the same thing.  To include the central bank and its minions nearly controlling the entire federal government ( too esoteric for you?  How about the private corporation that got the local government to seize private citizens land so they could build a factory on their spot of choice? ) to keep making obscene profits.  Where do you think the interest payments on the national debt go?

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The Detroit auto makers not only get bailouts ( don’t act so noble your favorite, Ford, didn’t get one.  They applied the first time, didn’t get one, then made themselves out to be hero’s when they didn’t take one while GMC and Italiano Chrysler did.  They are just as big of weasels ), they double the price on cars mostly made by robots or Mexican Nationals, while devolving quality exponentially.  They aren’t stealing and manipulating, also?  Everyone is so busy screwing everyone else ( when was the last time you got a raise, even after you’d doubled your productivity.  Again ) and it isn’t even barely registered anymore by anyone.  Unless it is the cops.

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Who in a lot of cases don’t even steal extra money but rather get the extra, then see their budget decreased the same amount.  The city or county are the ones taking advantage economically of asset forfeiture.  The money they save goes to the retired politicians and similar boondoggles.  Now, please note that I’m not making excuses here.  Police abuse their power, and they screw over citizens economically.  Granted, they do and are.  All I’m trying to point out is that society as a whole, everyone in ANY position of power, is doing the exact same thing.

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You may feel more betrayed by the police abusing their position, as you expect more from them, but in a world were you are not allowed to feed yourself on your own land, or in some cases drink the water that fell from the sky, everyone has little choice but to rely on the almighty dollar.  The police cannot do as they do out of charity.  They are faced with money conundrums just like the rest of us.  They are also just as human as the rest of us and fall prey to greed and hate and the desire for vengeance, or the allure of sloth.  In a world surrounded by all institutions surviving off of theft, how long do the police stand by the old ideals?

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But of course, that is only a superficial change.  Obviously, when society goes from stable to declining, you are going to see the police culture change from that of a peace keeping organization to that of law enforcement.  When you keep the peace, the laws are by necessity few and understood and agreed upon by most.  The laws reflect the cultural norm.  When society starts looting itself, all against all as the pie shrinks, those in power hijack the law to benefit themselves.  I don’t mean that the elite haven’t always controlled the law as a profit center.  I mean, duh, right?  Of course they wrote the laws enriching themselves.

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The difference in a collapse is that once the profits start shrinking, the elite rewrite the laws to now take away more from the people.  The Great Depression was a good example.  It wasn’t a systemic collapse, just an economic one, but it still illustrates a point.  By “Going Socialist”, the private companies were spared a lot of expense of supporting workers.  Not that they ever did, treating workers as disposable cogs, but due to social unrest, either they or the government was going to need to actually pay a living wage.

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The fact that the taxpayers themselves got to pick up the tab for their own needs tells you how much any private company gives a hoot.  Of course, it eventually bit Germany in the ass, restricting executive pay with equitable wages and giving Unions say on the boards of directors ( the bankers showed them, by flooding the country with low wage welfare class Muslims ), but for many generations their economy remained stable because the corporations were NOT allowed to run roughshod over workers.  Here in the Land Of The Free, it is de rigeur. 

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By focusing on laws by the elite rather than laws based on cultural consensus, all assets previously shared with the workers is now forcibly taken back.  As this process continues, everything goes from the intent of the law to the letter of the law.  There is a huge difference between the two.  One demands justice and the other demands manipulation at will ( “what is the definition of ‘is’?” ).  The police no longer enforce peace, the intent of the law, but enforce the letter of the law which has been manipulated past social control then to asset stripping now.  The police have little to do with this, as the government controls the police and the elite control the government.

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I’ll continue tomorrow, exploring the culture dynamic within the police and how it has changed.

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