Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L. Knapp
“As a private citizen, who you are and what you look like is none of the government’s business until and unless there’s probable cause to believe you’ve committed, or are in the act of committing, a crime. As a government employee, who a cop is and what he or she looks like is entirely the public’s business any time we want it to be. The cop at least pretends to work for — ‘serve and protect’ — us, while collecting a paycheck from the taxes we fork over. We’re the bosses, at least in theory. They’re our employees, at least in theory. The idea that they’re entitled to hide their identities from us while waving guns at us and ordering us around gets that relationship completely bass-ackward.” (06/12/25)