Police Talking Points

Bear in mind this comes from an ex-cop.

The fundamental moral consideration will always be maintaining social stability, which is not the same thing as “order” (as cops tend to define it). Law-n-order is a chimera of the Western middle class, a myth that never has existed and cannot possibly exist. However, that does not make the issues necessarily a matter of class warfare. The real problem is rejecting reality. But we are stuck in this current situation, and we can easily address the growing police state from its own context. I have no doubt some of you could come up with more, or even better, answers.

The problem is they are piling up innocent dead bodies and refuse to admit this is a problem.

1. “We shouldn’t be second guessing our police in the field.”

Well, chief, that’s what accountability is all about. We hired you folks to do a job and when something doesn’t work out, we want to know why so we can make it work better the next time. We give you lots of authority and power under the assumption that you would not want us to take it all back. But if you pretend that somehow such power now magically comes from you, we have a serious problem.

2. “Everything happened according to policy.”

Then we need to examine your policies, because the results are entirely inconsistent with your mission.

3. “We are the professionals.”

The problem with that is professional expertise always comes at the cost of paying less attention to everything else. You have stuck your head so deeply into the job you have forgotten how to think like an ordinary human. When you start seeing all things through the lens of your profession, you forget what the rest of us see. We get the feeling you don’t give a damn what we see.

4. “We can’t do our jobs if you keep putting restrictions on us.”

You are not the one who determines the mission; the people who pay you decide that. If we decide you need to do less, then restrain yourselves. Society cannot be perfected. Your vision of perfection is not at all realistic nor is it consistent with the rest of the community. If you insist on acting without any input from this community, then you aren’t a part of this community; you are an occupying force who must be expelled. If you treat us like the enemy, then you are the threat, not the criminals.

At the point where policemen are looking for an excuse to exercise their authority, they are evil by definition. Social stability depends on them being the laziest and least efficient employees of the public. In case you weren’t aware, it is the policemen themselves who tend to promote the panicky fear of petty crime, often working in concert with a slender section of highly activist busybodies who take control of everything because no one else is worried about such things. The fundamental assumption that humanity requires herding and management is our biggest social problem.

To the degree possible, we need to recreate something that was destroyed centuries ago. It’s a fundamental moral orientation, in which the called shepherds of God get involved primarily to hinder government from doing anything. We cannot prevent those officious servants of Satan from popping up and organizing things down to the last detail in some vain hope of creating Utopia. We no longer live in a world where ostracizing such people is acceptable; they’ve been reshaping civilization to suit their wishes. From within this failed system, we have to use the wisdom of Heaven to oppose them. We will fail, but the mission is not changing the world, but making sure they have no excuse when they stand before God and account for their evil works.