re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

Unfortunately police forces seem to attract men (and it’s mostly men) who are on personal power trips. I’ve been told that the better police academies do screenings to weed out the high risk types, but I wonder with all the police academies in this country how many people become police officers who really ought not be.

Centuries ago there were no police. As a responsive-to-public-oversight institution they are for the most part a modern invention. Before that it was simply strongmen under the employ of whoever the local baron happened to be.

Watchmen were often brutes.