The Watchmen – State Violence in a Democracy
The role of the police in western society is beginning to be understood and challenged in ways that were inconceivable only a decade ago. The belief in ‘law and order’ and the infallibility of the police – or at least their role as a force for moral good in a system designed to uphold basic rights was deeply held. But the deluge of state violence now routinely witnessed and shared has fatally undermined that belief system and exposed as being based on a set of myths. ‘Policing by consensus’ – the idea that you can only police a society if a level of good relations is maintained is under threat and new radical notions of abolishing the police system as we understand it are emerging.
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Thousands of cops to enforce uniform curfew in NCR
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Lt. Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, Officer-In-Charge of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) alone will be deploying more than 9,600 of its personnel on the streets as early as the scheduled start of curfew time at 10 p.m.
“We will also be deploying additional personnel to augment the NCRPO policemen and assist the local government units of Metro Manila in the implementation of the uniform curfew,” said Eleazar.
A unified curfew will come into force in Metro Manila starting today to help curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and its variants.