We have private police, now.

The mayor owns control of their paychecks. The mayor owns control of their pension funds. The city council and mayor and feds say what they file charges against. We don’t get a say in the laws they enforce, and they’re funded with a combination of free money, unwarranted property seizures, and fraudulent for-profit fines.

If we got to say what was going to be done, and how, and the accused got to face the person accusing them of damages, and perjury penalties and understanding of the meaning of “thou shalt not commit false witness” and “as you judge, you will be judged” became understood in practical ways again, sure there is option for corruption, but do you really think that the mayor of a large city stealing a multibillion dollar pension fund to throw into a graft project that he throws the weight of the mayors office into to get everyone moving… isn’t going to generate hundreds of times more corruption than private citizens getting out of bed for free to go enforce an arrest warrant to summon someone to court to face a person claiming actual damages, because we would want our neighbors property to be restored every bit as much as ours, and for our other neighbor to not be convicted falsely any more than for us to be?

We have private police, now.

The mayor owns control of their paychecks. The mayor owns control of their pension funds. The city council and mayor and feds say what they file charges against. We don’t get a say in the laws they enforce, and they’re funded with a combination of free money, unwarranted property seizures, and fraudulent for-profit fines.

If we got to say what was going to be done, and how, and the accused got to face the person accusing them of damages, and perjury penalties and understanding of the meaning of “thou shalt not commit false witness” and “as you judge, you will be judged” became understood in practical ways again, sure there is option for corruption, but do you really think that the mayor of a large city stealing a multibillion dollar pension fund to throw into a graft project that he throws the weight of the mayors office into to get everyone moving… isn’t going to generate hundreds of times more corruption than private citizens getting out of bed for free to go enforce an arrest warrant to summon someone to court to face a person claiming actual damages?

We have private police, now.

The mayor owns control of their paychecks. The mayor owns control of their pension funds. The city council and mayor and feds say what they file charges against. We don’t get a say in the laws they enforce, and they’re funded with a combination of free money, unwarranted property seizures, and fraudulent for-profit fines.

If we got to say what was going to be done, and how, and the accused got to face the person accusing them of damages, and perjury penalties and understanding of the meaning of “thou shalt not commit false witness” and “as you judge, you will be judged” became understood in practical ways again, sure there is option for corruption, but do you really think that the mayor of a large city stealing a multibillion dollar pension fund to throw into a graft project that he throws the weight of the mayors office into to get everyone moving… is going to generate even part of the corruption that private citizens getting out of bed for free to go enforce an arrest warrant to summon someone to court to face a person claiming actual damages?