Police Deception and the Social Contract Imperative

American Police Deception and the Social Contract Imperative argues that pursuant to the Social Contract, the People of the United States gave up certain self-help options and replaced them with a criminal justice system and constitutional protections that gave United States law enforcement powers, including arrest, search, and interrogation, on the express requirement that those law enforcement officers exercise those power within strict limits and equivalently for all. Those limits are principally enumerated in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution. When officers secure confessions by deceit or mislead suspects into consenting to a search, that may all have been blessed to one degree or another in American courts, but all also violate the Social Contract. In the post-George Floyd era, officers must act at all times within the Social Contract and courts must stop stretching the Social Contract to and beyond the breaking point using public safety, clearing cases, or maintaining order as the ethereal justifications.