The "Special" Humans and Their Illusory "Magical" Powers Plus Exposing My Own Error

The Authoritarian Origins of Policing in America

“More than crime, modern police forces in the United States emerged as a response to “DISORDER.”
What constitutes social and public order depends largely on who is defining those terms, and in the cities of 19th century America they were DEFINED BY THE MERCANTILE INTERESTS, who through taxes and political influence supported the development of bureaucratic policing institutions. THESE ECONOMIC INTERESTS HAD A GREATER INTEREST IN SOCIAL CONTROL THAN CRIME CONTROL. Private and for profit policing was too disorganized and too crime-specific in form to fulfill these needs. The emerging COMMERCIAL ELITES needed a mechanism to insure a stable and orderly work force, a stable and orderly environment for the CONDUCT OF BUSINESS, and the MAINTENANCE OF WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE “COLLECTIVE GOOD” (Spitzer and Scull 1977).
These mercantile interests also WANTED TO DIVEST THEMSELVES OF THE COST OF PROTECTING THEIR OWN ENTERPRISES, TRANSFERRING THOSE COSTS from the private sector TO THE STATE.”

Thus, the truth arises: modern police forces are a result of extremely effective CRONY CAPITALISM AND THE AUTHORITARIAN DESIRES OF THE POLITICAL ELITES. They created the modern police force out of a concerted effort to COERCE THE MASSES TO ascribe to what the political elites of the time believe is the greatest “COLLECTIVE GOOD.” This concept flies in the face of the principles of personal liberty and voluntary cooperation our society was founded upon.
Furthermore, WHAT GIVES THE WEALTHY FEW THE RIGHT TO ASSUME THE DICTATION OF THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUALS ?
The injustice in the origins of modern police are striking. However, the problems only get worse. Dr. Potter expounds upon the latent inequality at work in the early days of police work:

“The only effective political strategy available to exploited workers was what economic elites referred to as “rioting,” which was actually a primitive form of what would become union strikes against employers (Silver 1967). The MODERN POLICE FORCE not only provided an organized, centralized body of men (and they were all male) legally authorized to use force to maintain order, it also PROVIDED THE ILLUSION THAT THIS ORDER WAS BEING MAINTAINED UNDER THE RULE OF Law, NOT AT THE WHIM OF THOSE WITH ECONOMIC POWER.

DEFINING SOCIAL CONTROL as CRIME CONTROL WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY RAISING THE SPECTER OF THE “DANGEROUS CLASSES.”
The SUGGESTION was that public drunkenness, CRIME, hooliganism, political protests and worker “riots” were THE PRODUCTS OF A BIOLOGICALLY INFERIOR, morally intemperate, unskilled and uneducated UNDERCLASS. The consumption of alcohol was widely seen as the major cause of crime and public disorder. The irony, of course, is that public drunkenness didn’t exist until mercantile and commercial interests created venues for and encouraged the commercial sale of alcohol in public places. This underclass was easily identifiable because it consisted primarily of the POOR, FOREIGN MIGRANTS and FREE BLACKS.
(Lundman 1980: 29).

This isolation of the “dangerous classes” as the embodiment of the crime problem created a focus in crime control that persists to today, the idea that policing should be directed toward “bad” individuals, rather than social and economic conditions that are criminogenic in their social outcomes.

In addition, the CREATION OF THE MODERN POLICE FORCE in the United States also IMMUTABLY ALTERED the DEFINITION OF THE POLICE FUNCTION.
Policing had always been a reactive enterprise, occurring only in response to a specific criminal act. Centralized and bureaucratic police departments, focusing on the alleged crime-producing qualities of the “dangerous classes” BEGAN TO EMPHASIZE PREVENTATIVE CRIME CONTROL. The presence of police, authorized to use force, could stop crime before it started by SUBJECTING EVERYONE TO SURVEILLANCE and OBSERVATION.

The concept of the police patrol as a preventative control mechanism ROUTINIZED THE INSERTION OF POLICE INTO THE NORMAL DAILY EVENTS OF EVERYONE’S LIFE, A PREVIOUSLY unknown and HIGHLY FEARED CONCEPT in both England and the United States (Parks 1976).”

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