Definitions of law, in reality and in the abstract
Law professors remind us that violations of habeas corpus are against the law.
Category Archives: Law and Society
Mobs and their hideous effects
Your select group finds itself isolated, condemned to impotence. When that happens, the final fall of the guillotine’s blade will be just as swift for the would-be saints as it was for their victims.
Freedom precedes power
The greater good comes at a high price when you pay with your autonomy.
Statues in the temple of race
Mobs do not even want power or authority. They would not know what to do with power or authority if they acquired it. They merely want to destroy, and they want others to see them do it.
Murder most cruel
That poor guy is suffering so much. We all want to knock the policeman off, but the uniforms and the guns are too much. No one wants to get shot, and most of us are black.
Role reversal
Domestic law enforcement might become effective again, and the army would solve its recruiting problem. Moreover, each force could make better use of its training in its new role.
Police reform and systemic racism
Start with budgets, leadership, employment contracts and qualifications, disciplinary processes, training programs: administrative details every organization must address to function effectively. Academic concepts like systemic racism do not give you traction you need for deep change.
What does a police state require?
We need to accept the fact that this president, if given the opportunity, will try to be a dictator.
Remove FBI from domestic politics
The FBI expects to police the 2020 election, secretly. First priority: do not get caught. They understand now that partial transparency does not work.
Stay out of their way
I know the word criminal conveys more contempt than one would like, but crimes include blatant violations of the Constitution, and of the rights we hold under the Constitution.
What happens when leaders think about themselves, and not their responsibilities
Amyiah Cohoon did everything right: She cut her spring break at Disney World short in early March, as the virus …
Public trust and leaders who deserve it
Top-down control does not work even in the army, let alone in public health. The best armies are led from the bottom, not from the top. The same goes for resistance to a deadly pathogen. Leadership – and followership – has to develop locally.
