Law and Order in the Modern World

What to make of the anti-police movement?

I was subject to a mild touch of police brutality in my youth.

One evening, in my younger and more vulnerable years, in a coastal town, I was on a quiet road drinking a beer with two friends.

A car pulled up. The plain-clothed driver told us to get in, in a particularly ominous and aggressive manner. We sensed danger and ran.

One friend and I escaped into …