Quote Originally Posted by CL View Post
You don't see the contradiction in your position? The standard to which the police work is set by the government and the government is selected by the majority of the people I.e. public.

I'll go further. People who vote do so for the parties that share their views most closely, knowing full well that once their party is elected they will create laws that discriminate against their opponents (very few vote for what is ideologically right). Who ultimately upholds these laws? The police of course.

So if you have unjust laws you are less likely to attract and more likely to lose higher calibre people into the police force. It's obvious, just look at all dictatorships in history and compare the corruption in those police forces to the corruption in countries with greater freedom. Then you'll realise that what you write above isn't true.
Interesting point of view as always Chris! Would you say therefore that corrupt police are are merely a symptom of a wider problem with democracy itself?

Is anarchy the answer?!