For all the screaming about “defund the police,” there was no such thing as police when this country was founded. The entire Bill of Rights is about preventing armed agents of the state from imposing themselves on citizens—because that’s how monarchies functioned. Cops were never the plan.
A thing that's stayed with me since high school was the bit in "The Prince" about how dangerous a standing army is when it has nothing specific to do. if they don't have something to crush, they will INVENT things to crush.
Which gets weird with all the 1st Amendment stans worshipping the forces that would most likely be deployed to suppress them. Because suppression is always something that would happen to the correct definition of "them."
the interpretation of the 3rd amendment has always been "but its okay if we do it." the boston massacre happened like 250 years ago and we still have unaccountable law enforcement shooting people for no reason
At $100,000,000+ spent on Police yearly in America, it is the 3rd best-funded standing army in the world behind China and our regular standing army. That is crazy!
source We Spend $296 Billion Each Year On A Justice System That Doesn’t Make Us Safer (forbes.com)
