If the role changes the person, how does it do that? What pressures do police face from the state, society, and capitalism in general that makes them into a worse person?
If the role changes the person, how does it do that? What pressures do police face from the state, society, and capitalism in general that makes them into a worse person?
The key to determining how a police force will corrupt and crumble rests on one principle. Who the police are protecting and serving. In a capitalist system, the police exist to serve capital, which means suppressing the proletariat and proletariat action. I.e strike breaking, arresting leaders, assassinations, blackmail, harassment, fueling a minority based prison industrial system, and so on.
This type of “policing” will attract usually very degenerate candidates. BUT even those that join with high hopes to change the system or be righteous, those people are assassinated, snubbed for promotion, and pushed out. Creating a cesspit of degeneracy the rewards those that accept and support it, and “removes” those that don’t.
So what you’re left with is a system of survival of the fittest of the most sycophantic, psychopathic, evil, racist, people who climb the ranks and succeed; and where normal people are forced to shut up and follow, or be removed and pushed aside.
Not to mention the policing system in America is extremely fueled by nepotism as there is no oversight. Do you think a father who is a Sheriff will punish his lieutenant son for shooting an unarmed man? No, they’ll craft a good getaway story for then instead.