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We do not need to "take the law into our own hands". That is where it resides and has always resided. Citizens have the same duty to the law as do law enforcement officers. It is our duty to raise a hue and cry and to apprehend or help in the apprehension of a criminal.
The difference between law enforcement officers and the public is only this. Citizens do it for free as a tenet of their duty to their country, community, neighbors, and family. Law enforcement officers do it as job for hire, so that they may devote full time to the pursuit and arrest of criminals. We pay them to do full time what the average citizen cannot do full time and provide for his/her livelihood. By making it the livelihood of a relative few citizens we supposedly achieve a more consistent application of the force of law against the criminal.
This last must be supposed because the other difference between law enforcement officer and the citizen is that the citizen is present at the time of the crime and the police officer is not.
As we see the only person in a position to prevent a crime or the harm of a crime is the citizen, simply because he is there.
The police cannot prevent either of the above because they are almost without exception absent at the time and place of a crime. They bring the chalk to outline the bodies of helpless citizens, and pen and paper to write a report about how they assume the victim was victimized. Then they hunt the perpetrator, a necessary function, but not a security measure for the citizen nor a preventative of crime.
So the next time somebody uses the phrase "take the law into your own hands" remind them that that is exactly where it belongs and always has. The fact that we hire help to aid in capturing criminals does not negate our duty, or our right to respond to criminality.
Another superb piece, Howard.
Isn’t the Law Already In Our Hands? by Wilton D. Alston
www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston22.html
An excellent article.
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