Mamdani Wants to Reform “Excessive Force” but Authority to Use Force Offensively on People Isn't Legitimate in the 1st Place. It is Uncontrollable Evil; No One Has a Right to Rule Over Another Person

‘Reformers Get Reformed into the Shitstem.’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that the New York Police Department had reformed how it would handle parts of its oversight after an officer was allowed to retire before facing a disciplinary trial over the death of a teenager.

Mr. Mamdani also ordered the police to conduct a review of their use-of-force policies, which were central to an oversight board’s decision to recommend excessive force charges against the officer, Salvatore Alongi, in the death of the 19-year-old Win Rozario in 2024.

“When the government uses force against a New Yorker, the standard for accountability must be at its highest,” Mr. Mamdani said in a statement. “Every New Yorker deserves to know that force will be used lawfully, carefully and only when necessary.”[MORE]

To be clear, all persons have the natural, inalienable right to defend themselves and come to the defense of others if they believe another person is in imminent danger from an aggressor. Private security guards work under this natural law of self-defense. In contrast though, police officers and other representatives of authority have the additional “power” to act offensively as aggressors - to initiate unprovoked acts of violence against people whenever they deem it necessary to enforce law. As such, police are permitted to engage in conduct that “citizens” can never lawfully do, such as; stop individuals, touch them against their will, attack (make arrests) people, kill people, interfere with their freedoms in many ways (search interrogate, order etc), kidnap people (that is, ‘detain and transport’) or imprison them because higher authorities have empowered them to do so.

It is non-controversial to say that the legal system is entirely based on physical coercion or the use of physical force. “Laws” are threats backed by the ability and willingness of the government to use violence/force against those who disobey. Nearly all laws carry some punishment such as jail or a fine and all government orders carry some enforcement mechanism. Huemer explains ‘the legal system is anchored by a non-voluntary intervention, a harm that the state can impose regardless of the individual’s choices.’ An individual is perhaps “free” to; disobey a law, decline to pay a fine or ignore a command by police. But if the government chooses to enforce the law or its command, compliance is made mandatory by force – even if it means physically taking the money from the offender’s account or physically carrying him to the jail and dragging him to a cell. With regard to all governments worldwide who are believed to legitimately possess authority, regardless of type, function or characterization, said authority makes government the supreme authority over human affairs.

The problem, however, is that “authority” has no legitimate basis and rational basis to account for its existence; it is a granfalloon.

We are taught from birth that all governmental power purportedly comes from the people. That is, citizens delegate their individual power to the government for it to act on our behalf. The government is said to represent our collective will. However, individuals cannot delegate powers or rights that they do not individually possess to the government. Government is said to work much in the same way that an agent represents a principal in all kinds of business or other contractual relationships. For instance, a manager at McDonalds represents the franchise owner when she carries out his everyday business requests, like ordering inventory and hiring workers, etc. She is the agent and the owner is the principal who empowers and directs her work. Naturally, an agent only can possess whatever powers the principal gave to her. For instance, the McDonalds manager would not have the authority to sell the owner’s store unless the owner granted her such power. Similarly, the McDonalds manager could not have the power to do things that the franchise owner himself does not have the power to do - such as change the McDonalds logo to a black panther or use another business’ parking lot for its storage without the other businesses’ permission. An agent cannot have more power than the principal because all his/her power necessarily originated from the principal.

While individuals have the inalienable right to act in self-defense or to come to the defense of others, individuals do not have a right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence (use force offensively) on people and do not have a right to forcibly control other people. As explained, citizens cannot delegate rights they don’t have. As such, it is impossible for citizens to delegate to the government the power to use force offensively and the power to forcibly control other people. The government could not and did not derive its power to rule over people from individuals. Even if an individual voluntarily agreed to allow the government to use force offensively on him and be subject to its rulership, such an agreement would not empower the government to do the same to other people and similarly forcibly control them. Nevertheless, the government has somehow granted itself the power to do things that no individual citizen could ever do – rule or govern over people and forcibly control them to enforce laws that people are legally obligated to obey. [MORE]