57 | What is Liberalism? Part II. Policing and Political Economy
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Institution of the Police
The police are not an extrinsic or ad hoc institution grafted onto liberalism. The maintenance of social order often requires discretion about when to enforce the law, he says. Discretion and enforcement of the law and use of violence to maintain social control in order seemed to be two intrinsic features of the police institution in liberal democratic societies. Low levels of employment protection, weak trade unions, lightly regulated labor markets contributes to social conditions in which social disorder will flourish, David Garland argues.
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