Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Martin George Holmes
“The concept of classical liberal policing (henceforth ‘liberal policing’) has taken a beating in recent years, nowhere more so than in Britain and its former dominions. When Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police in 1829, the flagship of Britain’s modern police forces, he envisioned it as a people’s police. Officers would defend British liberties on behalf of the public, not because the common people were incapable, but because it was more efficient to delegate the task to full-time professionals. To reduce undue political influence, officers swore an oath of allegiance to the Crown and to the law, not to the government of the day.” (03/19/26)
https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/the-decline-of-classical-liberal