Thug Cop Beats Up Defenseless Handcuffed Woman

Are you so shocked? We live in a society where you are qualified to work based upon a degree, or completion of a training program – not the character and virtue of the employee.

Cops should act like guardians – instead they tend to act like ignorant brutes with a fanatical, single-minded interest in their own survival and advancement, routinely covering up their own widespread misbehavior.

Why? They get their job because they went through the training and passed some tests – they were never evaluated as people. They lack wisdom, and do not have a knowledge of true justice.

Or because police exist solely to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie.

That is true in most of the case – they should serve an ideal of justice rather than their own interests. Their job shouldn’t exist to serve themselves, it should exist to serve the common good – most people should not be qualified to be a cop, only the most selfless, courageous, prudent, just and temperate should be tolerated.

Then there would be too few cops.

Not necessarily. Good men can be created through a proper education.

All humans are fallible. Humans should not be given the right to preside in an authoritarian manner over one another, lest their fallibility shine through in heinous ways (such as this one).

People can be educated to be reluctant about exercising power – and by training them to practice prudence, justice and temperance they can learn to restrain themselves from indulging in unjust displays of power. The people of today do not reflect people in their inherent state: it is possible to educate men into being indifferent judges who restrain themselves from the passions. Of course, these judges are not necessary if the entire population is educated in such a way, but until that day comes, guardians must overlook society.