<story><title>Game theory’s cure for corruption</title><url>http://aeon.co/magazine/society/game-theorys-cure-for-corruption-make-us-all-cops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kps</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;gt; In righteous societies, police were not a separate, elite order.
  &amp;gt; They were everybody. 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Attributed to John Peel in his establishment of London Metropolitan Police:
“To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to
&lt;i&gt;the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are
the police&lt;/i&gt;, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give
full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in
the interests of community welfare and existence.”¹&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peelian_Principles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peelian_Principles&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Game theory’s cure for corruption</title><url>http://aeon.co/magazine/society/game-theorys-cure-for-corruption-make-us-all-cops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hammeringtime</author><text>&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Imagine a city where police commit blatant traffic violations and never ticket one another. The authorities could decrease power inequalities by developing an online system in which all citizens are able to anonymously report dangerous drivers. Anyone who received too many independent reports would be investigated – police included.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense to me. It infuriates me as a biker and pedestrian when police dangerously disobey the traffic laws. I see them do rolling stops, putting on their lights briefly to get through a red light, or speed up and pass me on the left as I&amp;#x27;m making a left turn.&lt;p&gt;One way to do this would be to allow anyone to report traffic violations that they caught on video. So if I record the video of someone committing a violation, I upload the video to the town&amp;#x27;s website, they send the owner of the license plate a ticket.&lt;p&gt;That said, I thought that most of this article was pretty weak, a lot of meandering, incoherence, and conflation of different ideas.&lt;p&gt;One of the best articles I read on morality, game theory and evolution was here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jim.com&amp;#x2F;rights.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jim.com&amp;#x2F;rights.html&lt;/a&gt; The author derives a theory of natural rights from game theory, and it makes a lot of sense.</text></comment>