Public Health Measures Enforced by Violence Aren’t as Healthy as Governments Pretend

Was it really just a few years ago that Americans started to agree that cops are too militarized, too in-your-face, and too likely to target people who can’t fight back? When legal experts warned that law is always violent and cautioned that we needed to think twice before making rules to be enforced by armed police?

For a brief time, we seemed to be taking the dangers of official force to heart. Then the pandemic came along, and we started repeating all the old mistakes. Now, rulers and the public are learning, again, that it’s unlikely you’ll make the world