Property, Ownership, and Monopoly Police Forces

When we hear of police abuse and anti-police protesting as we are now seeing in Ferguson Missouri, it is always helpful to keep one fundamental fact in mind: modern police are a monopoly organizations. As with all monopolies, the cost of government police will grow ever higher as the quality of service goes ever downward. Not subject to competition or oversight of any meaningful sense, police forces like the one in Ferguson, and like most places in America, is defined by an ability to behave with near impunity while demanding ever greater amounts of tax funds from the taxpayer. This is then coupled with enormous subsidied from the federal government in the form of homeland security funds and militry equipment which is now routinely given to police departments. This helps ensure all the more than the state's monopoly police can greatly overhelm any challenge to its monopoly power. They are most certainly not allowed to exercise self-ownership in the most fundamental ways, which we see every day in teh drug war. Indeed, most interactions between police and private citizens in situations like this are police. Everyone is turned into a petty criminal be these laws, and of course, as Ludwig von Mises has pointed out, once the government has the right to control what you put into your own body, they have the right to control anything. http://mises.org/daily/5270/State-or-PrivateLaw-Society "participation in the economy is illegal" Provided zero marketable skills by the government schools, the worker productivity of most of the schools graduates are below the minimum wage. It is likely that were it legal to work, these people could attain marketable skills rather quickly with on the job training. but of course, that is illegal. So, we're then supposed to see the Of course the answer is always more coercion, more police, more government stending, more welfare. God forbid that "That is, it is an agency that unilaterally fixes the price that private citizens must pay for the state's service as ultimate judge and enforcer of law and order." This impunity is also reflected in the targeting of journalists and anyone who attempts to record the actions of police. Certainly, such behavior would not be tolerated by any private-sector organization. Clearly it not "their" property. It's important to realize that participation in the economic system is largely illegal for a large part of this population. The unemployment rate among black teens is over 20 percent, and of course, self-employment is illegal. In other words, self-ownership means nothing in this sort of economy because working without government approvals is simple illegal. If someone has a car, it's illegal for him or her to sell rides in the car for cash, without the proper government permissions. Governments of course know that this situation leads to social decay, so rather than legalize work and entrepreneurship, they simply seek to pacify the population with some welfare benefits to keep people just a little bit above subsistence level. The predictable conservative tactic is to http://allenbwest.com/2014/08/angela-west-acting-white-asking-black-people-looting-neighborhood/ It's illegal for many of them to even work, thanks for federal minimum wage laws. Are they allowed self ownership? It is iollegal to start small businesses without. It is illegal to drive car without paying various government agencies for the right to do so. It is of course illegal to "own" any property without The idea that