Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 28 May 2022 09:09)
I never said sole reason. I said primary reason.
The police only came into existence in London, for example, to prosecute property crime. Until then they used the Hew and Cry system, and then a bounty system for stolen items. These were insufficient to protect property which precipitated the creation of the police and a more formal justice system.
Meh. London, for example, grew from a population of 1m in 1800 to 6.5m in 1900. In the explosively growing cities of the 19th century industrialization era, the creation of a dedicated, more organized police force was imho inevitable. Even in a society which doesn't protect property rights at all, a police would still have been necessary to deal with violent crime, social unrest and all that, given how much denser people started to live. Of course property crime is more common than violent crime, so it is the type on which the necessity for a police force became visible first. I think you're really overinterpreting this fact when you claim that it shows that protecting the capital owners was the
primary purpose of the police; or when you indirectly assert that this - rather than keeping the public safe from violent criminials - is still the
primary purpose of the police today.
Again: your criticism of the bias of the legal system and law enforcement toward the owning class and against the lower classes is justified, but imho, you blow the extent out of proportion. No, the police is not "primarily a tool of capitalist oppression" or whatever you wanna call it.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 28 2022 02:51pm
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