“policed society,” in which state power was significantly expanded in the face of social upheavals and demands for justice.4 As Kristian Williams points out, “The police represent the point of contact between the coercive apparatus of the state and the lives of its citizens.”5 In the words of Mark Neocleous, police exist to “fabricate social order,” but that order rests on systems of exploitation—and when elites feel that this system is at risk, whether from slave revolts, general strikes, or crime and rioting in the streets, they rely on the police to control those activities.
