It is no accident that police have become more brutal – in appearance as well as action – since they became law enforcement. The term itself is a brutal syllogism. The law exists and must be enforced because it isthe law. I am just doing my job, only following (lawful) orders. People were hanged for using such reasoning to justify the enforcement of vicious, evil laws and went to the gallows baffled as to why. Victor’s justice, they called it. And perhaps they were right, if a bit prematurely. Today’s defendants – well, one hopes that they will be that, one day … Continue reading What it Means to be a Law Enforcer