With all of the corruption, abusive power, and police brutality, many wonder whether or not there are any good cops out there at all. From time to time, Counter Current News has been contacted by officers who have expressed frustration with their departments, and fellow police officers. One source from within the Beavercreek Police Department, in Ohio, has given us an exclusive interview about the John Crawford case. In a few cases we have encountered, members of law enforcement who have come to us, have left their respective departments. One of those former “good cops” is Raeford Davis, and today he is an anarchist.

Davis was a police officer for six years. While troubled by many aspects of government law enforcement at the time, he explains that he was committed to the cause. Later, over a period of years, he began to understand the morality or lack thereof, behind policing the community as an arm an agent of the State.

Davis became immersed in the concepts of voluntarism, anarchism, the non-aggression principal and how destructive the current manifestation of law enforcement is to proper human interaction.

Davis spent four years on patrol and two as a special victims unit detective with the City of North Charleston Police Department in South Carolina. Before becoming a police officer, he graduated from Charleston Southern University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice.

Raeford made hundreds of drug-related arrests over the course of his career. He used to think it was all about keeping bad guys off the street.

“I was misguided for participating in the war on drugs and guns and my actions as a cop made things worse,” Davis explains.

Now he says that drug prohibition laws and the black markets they create are what actually fosters the violence we see and associate with drugs.

“Even though everything I did as a police officers was legally justifiable. I began to question the moral justification of enforcing drug laws. A citizen does not have the moral authority to use violence to kick in the door of a stranger’s home, put a gun his face and take his rightful possessions even if they are unpopular mood altering substances. A badge cannot shield you from that morality. Like most cops, I always wanted to act with integrity, help others and ‘do the right thing,’ I understand now, by blindly following the law, I unwittingly committed legal yet immoral acts of aggression against others in the performance of my duties. Even when no one is killed or injured, the mere act of seizing a person’s drugs, cash, locking them in cages or forcing them to pay a fine is the same as theft, kidnapping and extortion. All of which are immoral acts.”

Today, Raeford serves the community by speaking out against drug prohibition, “the government monopoly on law enforcement,” from the perspective of a former officer.

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Also be sure to check out Raeford Davis’s blog: Blue Enmity.

(Article by Jackson Marciana and Moreh B.D.K.)