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Content: Indeed it is easier to define
a non-democratic police and non-democratic police behavior than their opposites. But viewed abstractly all democratic police systems share the ideal that
police powers are to be used according to the rule of law and not according
to the whims of the ruler or the police agent. The state’s power must be
used in a restrained fashion and proportional to the problem. In the original
British model there was to be policing by consent and hence an unarmed
police. Ideally citizens would accept police authority out of respect,
rather than out of intimidation. A democratic police is defined
by both its means and its ends. Some means are simply too abhorrent and
are prohibited under any circumstances: torture and summary executive,
kidnapping, and harming family members of a suspect. Other means involving
the use of force, the denial of liberty and interrogation must only occur
with due process of law. Due process does not refer to questions of guilt
or innocence, but with the way in which guilt is determined.