Tuesday, December 30, 2003

To Protect and To Serve or for Social Control?

Very interesting article on the rise of state organized police forces published in the Monthly Review. Written by Kristian Williams, the piece, entitled “The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing," looks at the rise of police forces, and, examines their role in actual control of crime versus controlling society morally.  A telling sentence from the article.

"In other words, the greatest portion of the actual business of law enforcement did not concern the protection of life and property, but the controlling of poor people, their habits and their manners."

Via Mises Economics Blog.

Posted by John Venlet on 12/30 at 06:04 AM
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