Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (Jeffrey Tucker)
- Highlight Loc. 2415-21 | Added on Saturday, December 31, 2011, 03:12 PM
In any case, the phenomenon of Officer Kanapsky raises fundamental questions not only about federal labor law but also about the role of the police in any community. Do they really stop crime? Sure, they arrive after a crime has been committed; they take fingerprints (those only seem to work in the movies) and file reports. In real life, however, crime prevention is due to the private sector: locks, alarm systems, and the like.This is what prevents crimes from taking place. The police aren’t so hot at prosecuting crime either, but for people who commit crimes like slowing down at a three-way stop. Yet we are all somehow under the illusion that the police are the reason we are safe. It is the core mythology of our civic religion.
