ery lurid crime, less prohibition, and less puritanical concern with ‘freaks’ and ‘deviants’” (Parenti 289).
It is this larger sociological context that has created the modern day police state and police officers who often resort to deviant behavior to help ensure the nation remains secure from the domestic violence Barry Goldwater argues was the most fundamental purpose of government in his presidential campaign of 1964 (Parenti 6). Such a police state has created a police force that often violates civil rights, exhibits criminal behavior itself, and one that maintains secrecy and protection of officers from public scrutiny at all costs. In short, police officers are a subgroup that imposes the will of a handful on the majority in society. Such subgr
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