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Content: These include socialization to norms, a desire to
have others think well of us, reciprocity, self-defense and the design
of the physical environment. Yet police are an important factor. Their
importance increases with the heterogeneity and size of a society. A defining characteristics
of police is their mandate to legally use force and to deprive citizens
of their liberty. This power is bound to generate opposition from those
who are subject to it. It also offers great temptations for abuse. Law
enforcement requires a delicate balancing act. The conflicts between liberty
and order receive their purest expression in considerations of democratic
policing. It is ironic that police
are both a major support and a major threat to a democratic society. When
police operate under the rule of law they may protect democracy by their
example of respect for the law and by suppressing crime.