The Disappointing Fact that There Aren't Any Bad Cops to Blame in Any of the Murders by Police, by Agent d'Amore

Why do any people think that there are some bad police who are doing these bad things to the people whom they’ve been sworn to “serve and protect”? Many people seem to be wondering (and are asking) how things could go so wrong.

Maybe these people fundamentally misunderstand who and what police are. It doesn’t seem that there are just a few bad apples, among the cops, who are committing these murders and other brutalities; nor does it seem that this has ever been the case. A look at the very definition of the police and the history of the police in America seems to indicate that these cops are doing just what they have been trained to do and precisely what they were created to do in the first place.

Yes, every one of those murders by police is of course a bad thing—done by a murderer—by a bad person. But no, none of them was done by a bad cop, because that’s the job that every cop has been hired to do—that’s what the job of the police has always entailed.

The genesis of the modern police organization in the South is the “Slave Patrol” [

*1]. The first formal slave patrol was created in the Carolina colonies in 1704 [

*3]. Slave patrols had three primary functions: (1) to chase down, apprehend, and return to their owners, runaway slaves; (2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; and (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside of the law, if they violated any plantation rules.

Thus the slave patrols could be seen as “protecting property”—remember, the most valuable asset at that time across the South was slaves. The problem with this type of chattel property is that the slaves actually had intelligence, forms of communications, and a sense of fairness, as they were, after all, human beings.

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Dr. Potter’s point 1 can also be read as: find and return stolen property to its owner; point 2 can be seen as: use the innate intelligence of the enslaved people against them by inducing terror (their intelligence and imagination only enhances the fear of this terror); point 3 is closest to the modern concept of policing: people are to be “kept in line” by extrajudicial means if they do not meet the plantation’s expectations (white society’s interests, the business interests, the oligarchy’s needs).

When looked at from this perspective, it is easier to see that the police are doing exactly what is expected of them by the “powers that be”. Potter even spells this out explicitly when he writes:

More than crime, modern police forces in the United States emerged as a response to “disorder.” What constitutes social and public order depends largely on who is defining those terms, and in the cities of 19th century America they were defined by the mercantile interests, who through taxes and political influence supported the development of bureaucratic policing institutions. These economic interests had a greater interest in social control than crime control. Private and for profit policing was too disorganized and too crime-specific in form to fulfill these needs. The emerging commercial elites needed a mechanism to insure a stable and orderly work force, a stable and orderly environment for the conduct of business, and the maintenance of what they referred to as the “collective good” [

*4]. These mercantile interests also wanted to divest themselves of the cost of protecting their own enterprises, transferring those costs from the private sector to the state.

So not only are the police apparently doing as their masters prefer, and the public is paying for it, but many have been convinced that the true purpose of the police is really not what they seem to intuitively understand that it is: to be protectors of property, primarily owned by the richest in our society—the plantation crowd, which would of course include all parties to the trans-Atlantic triangle trade, such as New York bankers and Bostonian rum and sugar merchants. Most of the oldest and largest fortunes—and most prominent and prestigious institutions—in America trace their origins to the nefarious trade of slaves-sugar-rum (

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An interesting validation of what the real purpose of police departments in America is can be seen today in the St. Louis area. There is a department called the “The Bureau of Crimes against Persons”, an implicit and glaring confirmation that fighting crimes against persons is not the job of the “regular police”.

The past few weeks and past several months (really the past many decades), we’ve seen the police answer accusations of police brutality with: police brutality. We’ve seen charges of violations of constitutionally protected rights answered with: violations of constitutionally protected rights. Charges of racism have been met with: more racist arrests and incidents of racist actions and words. Qualified Immunity for police is a mechanism by the well-functioning judiciary that makes it nearly impossible to achieve justice. But after all, what ever made anybody think the judiciary was about justice?