The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.
A functioning police state needs no police.
There is no police brutality.
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.