@easysociology@sociology@academicchatter@academicsunite Yeah I get it. The problem for me (see Foucault) is the apparatus. We cant think outside it. The presumption of having a "police" is never challenged when considering solutions to social problems. In this case I might argue the carceral state is the generative engine for gray and black economies. The taxing, regulating and monopoly protection apparatus comes with a for-profit incarceration industry. Cops are money - and cops bring dearh.