Are police constitutional? The police, prisons, parole, and probation did not exist when the U.S. Constitution was created any more than did drones or the internet. The first thing in the United States like police was the slave patrol. The first modern police force in the United States was begun in New York City in 1845. I’ve argued at length elsewhere that drones are incompatible with the Bill of Rights. What about police?
The Third Amendment grew out of resistance to allowing soldiers to engage in any of the abuses that constitute the work of police. Need we accept those abuses? I think we can at the very least radically reduce them. To do so we will have to declare an end to the wars abroad and the wars at home. Balko quotes former Maryland police officer Neill Franklin on what changing police attitudes will require:
“Number one, you’ve signed on to a dangerous job. That means that you’ve agreed to a certain amount of risk. You don’t get to start stepping on others’ rights to minimize that risk you agreed to take on. And number two, your first priority is not to protect yourself, it’s to protect those you’ve sworn to protect.” But that would mean not being at war with people.
You can read the rest @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-rise-of-the-permanent-prisoners-of-war-in-america/5471547
We have become prisoners of the system of policing and war which has been imposed on We The People by oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent. It is truly a shame that those sworn to protect and serve us (i.e., the police and military) have instead decided to protect and serve the rising fascist powers that be.
And it's an even greater shame that We The People have allowed this coup to go unchallenged.
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