Dilek Sayedahmed, PhD’s Reviews > The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy > Status Update

generations of police sociologists have pointed out that only a very small proportion of what police actually do has anything to do
with enforcing criminal law—or with criminal matters of any kind. Most of it has to do with regulations, with the scientific application of physical force, or the threat of physical force, to aid in the resolution of administrative problems.
So: Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

THIS BOOK IS INSANE - no but really like the fuck

As the language of antibureaucratic individualism grows which insists on “market solutions” to every social problem, the Left has reduced itself to fighting a pathetic rearguard action, w/ attempts to make govt efforts more “efficient” thru partial privatization of services + incorporation of more “market principles,” “market incentives,” and market-based “accountability processes” into the bureaucracy itself.