Cops, Protesters, and Weeding Out Bad Apples

Cops, Protesters, and Weeding Out Bad Apples
A police officer walks by patrol cars at the Oakland Police headquarters in Oakland, Calif. in a file photo. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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To the extent that police work is done rightly, cops are a blessing to society. They often risk their lives to defend the lives and property of citizens who are total strangers to them, and ride to the rescue after a wide variety of natural disasters and accidents.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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