Liberty Minute August 23 2013

What would happen if people could develop the intellectual equivalent of a computer utility that would remove uniforms, badges, and titles from news accounts of fatal police raids? This would help people to determine if what happened was an act of criminal aggression or public service.

If our country were actually ruled by law, police would only be able to use force to defend persons and property. In a phrase, they would be peace officers, rather than law enforcers. Legitimate laws do not impose on the rights of individuals, and therefore do not need to be enforced.

A study carried out by The Police Foundation forty years ago found that police patrols have no impact on the crime rate. The chief purpose of police patrols isn?t to protect persons or property, but rather to collect revenue or arrest those suspected of indulging in vice.

In a reasonably free society, police would be called in to help people who are in trouble, rather than prowling neighborhoods in search of people to detain, question, and arrest. Their role would be similar to that of firemen, who ? after all -- don?t go on patrol in search of fires to extinguish.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.