Laws ARE the system. Otherwise there would be no "SYSTEM" for anyone to operate off of. Do you not get that you are talking in circles? A police department still has to obey the law... which is the system. The government that you place so much faith in and want to have MORE control over your life has to obey the law... which is the system.A government is a system of governance. A police department is a system of law enforcement. Laws themselves are not "THE system," only one part of it. They also mean fuck all when people in positions of power decide to ignore them and aren't held accountable afterward.
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