#law-and-order

#law-and-order

We cannot allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction and death throughout our country, Trump said. We have to respond with force and strength. We have to be vicious, just like they are. It's the only thing they understand.

Criminalization is the default framework people turn to in the United States to restore their sense of order, amid a crisis or emergency, so, when I hear someone suggest something wild, like calling the police on ICE, I understand where they're coming from. But as the Trump administration continues to consolidate power, we need to lose our illusions about the law as a moral instrument. We need more outlaws and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.

President Donald Trump initiated a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., declaring a national emergency in the city to seize control of the local police department and deploy National Guardsmen.

Religion, too, may have evolved as a cultural innovation to address the problem of norm enforcement. Early religious systems invoked supernatural agents who monitored behavior.

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