What is the Role of the Police?
What is the Role of the Police? Most people have no idea. Most have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the police.
They are not there to keep you safe. They are not there to protect you. That is what you have been conditioned to believe. But it was never their purpose. They are not even there for the people, they are there for the state. Police have two functions…
Enforcing Laws and Raising Revenue
If the law says that people who wear orange should be arrested on sight, they will arrest people who wear orange on sight. That is their job.
If the law does not say that hurting people who wear orange is a crime, they will be under zero obligation as a police officer, to assist someone wearing orange who is being attacked.
If there is a fine imposed on attacking people who wear orange, they will come to collect. Nothing more.
Law Enforcement
They are LAW ENFORCEMENT, not defenders of humanity, kindness, or morality.
They are no more and no less than any other man, woman, or child. As such, we should only heed to their power as much as we reasonably would to any other human being. If you believe otherwise, you are still under the hero spell. The one that presents your oppressors (and their footmen) as your saviours.
Making Heroes of the Police
The conditioning is strong from the start. We give babies little police cars to play with that make blaring sirens when you push a button. Part of the hero trifecta of toys: Ambulance. Firetruck. Police. Aligning them firmly with the ‘we save lives’ hero crew. Such a simple, seemingly benign, thing. Howeever, it will mark the start of a lifetime of social conditioning to targetedly heroise the police.
This is not by chance. It is to underpin the authority that you will later willingly confer upon the ones in charge of keeping you under control.\
Respect vs Force
There are two types of authority capable of wielding power over somebody. There is the authority of respect…and there is the authority of force. In order for anyone to have power over another, they must either have your respect or have enough brute force to secure your compliance. There is no other type of power. It is either given willingly or it is taken against our will.
It is much easier to create an environment in which the people give it willingly. Especially if people believe they are being protected by benignant heroes, put there to keep society safe. They will happily give police officers the power and authority to enforce laws ‘for our own good’. Laws that the people then mostly obey out of this same conferred respect. And the few citizens who don’t obey, are presupposed to be the bad guys. Putting the police, once again, firmly on the side of good. Creating a cycle whereby their power earns them respect, and their respect earns them power.
Dictatorship
The alternative approach to maintaining authority would require them to exert excessive force. So much force that it keeps the people in such a state of fear that they’re unlikely to even dare rebel. This is the method employed in dictatorships because they no longer hold the respect of the people. And the moment someone loses respect for the authority, the authority must move quickly to a position of brute force. If they don’t, all power is lost.
The police force has mastered holding onto power in both ways: force by fear, and respect based on a perception of morality. You give power to them willingly or unwillingly.\
To Protect and Serve
Their general motto ‘To protect and serve’ is ironic, yet effective, visual conditioning. Since they neither serve you nor serve to protect you. Their only job is to do as they are told by the state, to uphold the current laws.
They are also there to protect the state from you by extinguishing any of your grabs for personal power and autonomy. Your refusal to comply with any laws (no matter how minor), is an assault on their position of power. It is a risk to maintaining the system. It shows that you don’t hold the necessary respect for their authority. Therefore, any lack of respect for authority must be met with sufficient force to contain it. Dissent is dangerous to them. A spark can start a fire.
Brainwashing
But because you are also programmed to believe that they are heroes, you struggle to understand how they could ‘just follow orders’. Your mistake is thinking that their job was ever anything other than to just follow orders. The state makes the laws, they enforce them and squash out dissent. They are also there to raise revenue off of any rebellion of the rules at the same time.
Contracting with the Police
Anything beyond that and you are calling upon the beliefs and humanity of individual officers. But when you permitted their authority over you, the only thing they had to do was to be a police officer. That was the contract you unknowingly consented to, by complying with the law. Their individual morals were never a condition of the power that you personally entrusted to them. That’s because you don’t know each individual officer personally, and can’t. Their authority was always based on them simply being a police officer. By “just doing their job”, upholding the law, they have already fulfilled their part of the contract.
Stand Firm in Your Rights
So if you bend to the power of police authority, ask yourself…
Do you believe each individual police officer is worthy of your respect to the extent that you will blindly obey them? Or have you been giving your respect mistakenly to the police force as a whole for the heroic act of enforcing laws?
Finally, is the power that you give them based mostly on FEAR of repercussions? The answer to that will tell you which kind of authority you really live under…
Thanks for reading,
Psychic Madeline Rose
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