Das Kapital Reflections #1: Police

The law has always prescribed punishing surplus populations (redundant workers or bodies incapable of generating surplus value at a given stage of industrial development) to create the discipline & compliance necessary for people to see themselves as a workforce before anything else. All productivity worship as well as its converse, criminalization of the poor, has its roots here. Constables - proto police forces - were deputized for the express purpose of carrying out these laws..