DO WE REALLY NEED POLICE?
THERE’S a movement afloat to decrease or eliminate police funding in lieu of a slew recent civilian killings by police. Several have spoken up regarding the use of the military (even martial law) when citizens gather en masse, others on restructuring, retraining or increasingly funding them based on the important function they serve in any organized society, with every possible suggestion in between. So what’s the underlying problem? Why suddenly are so many civilians being publicly killed?
First, I believe, the civilian police in many cities during this decade have slowly been “militarized” in terms of equipment, operations and objectives, making lethal force more likely to occur. Second, I believe, their objectives in some cities have been “politicized.” Finally, I believe, the measure of their effectiveness has been most recently shifted from preserving lives to being scrutinized as to whether they are profit-making, a distinctly “businessified” point-of-view. Militarized, politicized, businessified. Especially so in light of recent suggestions by top political appointees to use the military and civilian police together to support the declaration of martial law and allow the military to direct a new presidential election.
This, again in my opinion, is one of several signs or results of the world entering into a new “Dark Age.” In my (Raymond Gaynor) and William Maltese’s book TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009), we explore the dissolution of the USA as a moral and economic power — a former nation of free traders — due to militarization, politicization and businessification, followed by NewAmerica’s return from the resulting Dark Age in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Savant 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Both explore a myriad of issues including plausible resulting changes in human views on morality, sex, LBGTQ, society, education, transportation, environment, religion, and, yes, the practical application of business, money and power. In THE EDGE OF MADNESS, there are enforcers rather than police or military — feared but only obliquely by civilians mainly because of their peculiar leadership role. Police? Sort of. Big Brothers? Sort of. A new form of rule or containment by tyranny? Not really, if by tyranny you mean the unjust, cruel or oppressive wielding of absolute power and authority. In my newly released book, one Enforcer kindly assists the protagonists in an otherwise awkward situation. So do we really need police? Let me ask that in a more fundamental way: Do we really need male fathers, and, if so, what kind?
The Edge of Madness
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
First, I believe, the civilian police in many cities during this decade have slowly been “militarized” in terms of equipment, operations and objectives, making lethal force more likely to occur. Second, I believe, their objectives in some cities have been “politicized.” Finally, I believe, the measure of their effectiveness has been most recently shifted from preserving lives to being scrutinized as to whether they are profit-making, a distinctly “businessified” point-of-view. Militarized, politicized, businessified. Especially so in light of recent suggestions by top political appointees to use the military and civilian police together to support the declaration of martial law and allow the military to direct a new presidential election.
This, again in my opinion, is one of several signs or results of the world entering into a new “Dark Age.” In my (Raymond Gaynor) and William Maltese’s book TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009), we explore the dissolution of the USA as a moral and economic power — a former nation of free traders — due to militarization, politicization and businessification, followed by NewAmerica’s return from the resulting Dark Age in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Savant 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Both explore a myriad of issues including plausible resulting changes in human views on morality, sex, LBGTQ, society, education, transportation, environment, religion, and, yes, the practical application of business, money and power. In THE EDGE OF MADNESS, there are enforcers rather than police or military — feared but only obliquely by civilians mainly because of their peculiar leadership role. Police? Sort of. Big Brothers? Sort of. A new form of rule or containment by tyranny? Not really, if by tyranny you mean the unjust, cruel or oppressive wielding of absolute power and authority. In my newly released book, one Enforcer kindly assists the protagonists in an otherwise awkward situation. So do we really need police? Let me ask that in a more fundamental way: Do we really need male fathers, and, if so, what kind?
The Edge of Madness
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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