From [HERE] and [HERE] The New York City Police Department has undercover officers posing as Amazon and FedEx delivery workers in the subway system, citing “the unique environment and challenges presented in the New York City Transit system” as justification for the subterfuge. 

Photos surfaced online this week of two officers—identified by the badge necklaces they eventually revealed—at the Myrtle-Broadway subway station in Brooklyn. 

When asked about the photos, a spokesperson for NYPD told Motherboard via email, “Transit Officers conduct plainclothes patrols due to the unique environment and challenges presented in the New York City Transit system. These plain clothes officers concentrate their efforts on deterring criminal activity such as pick pockets and sexual offenders. The NYPD continues to conduct enhanced patrol deployments in the subway system and remains highly focused on the relatively small number of people responsible for much of New York City’s crime and disorder.”

Loyda Colon, a spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform and Executive Director of the Justice Committee, told Motherboard via email, “These photos indicate a stunning abuse of public trust and a misuse of city money, and raises serious concerns about corporate-NYPD collaboration. Mayor Adams continues to pay lip service to community investments and police accountability, while pumping money into ineffective and abusive policing tactics that criminalize Black, Latinx and other New Yorkers of color. We need innovative approaches to public safety that are rooted in equity and prioritize ensuring all New Yorkers have what they need to thrive, not NYPD officers lurking in the subways disguised in Amazon, FedEx or other corporate uniforms to trick and arrest New Yorkers.”[MORE]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COPS AND PEOPLE. No matter what costume these government employees put on they still retain their superhuman powers as representatives of authority. Unlike people, police officers have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on people. Cops can put their hands on you, not just in self-defense of themselves or self-defense of others, but they may do so offensively, initiate force against citizens to make stops, searches, arrests and deadly force whenever they deem it necessary. Individuals have no such rights and may only act in self-defense or in self-defense of others. Also, individuals are morally and legally required to comply with police orders and commands and have no right to even resist an unlawful arrest in most states. But, if citizens don’t have an individual right to initiate acts of violence then where did the police acquire their powers? All governmental power comes from the people right? We delegate our power as individuals to government representatives and employees to act on our behalf. And it goes without saying that people cannot delegate powers or rights that they don’t possess. We see then that the power to initiate acts of violence, the right to rule, is a superhuman power - not coming from individuals or a human source. The answer of course is that there is no such source of police power or the right to rule! There is no valid legal answer or lawful accounting for the basis of authority. The source of police and all government power is simply the belief people have in their minds. Authority is a belief, nothing more. Put on a costume and poof you’re in charge, take it off and you’re not in charge. The undeceiver Larken Rose observes,

“Despite all of the complex rituals and convoluted rationalizations, all modern belief in “government” rests on the notion that mere mortals can, through certain political procedures, bestow upon some people various rights which none of the people possessed to begin with. The inherent lunacy of such a notion should be obvious. There is no ritual or document through which any group of people can delegate to someone else a right which no one in the group possesses.‘

Unfortunately, unprovoked violence against others or the use of “force” is the basis of all social evils and can only be used in the sense of attack not defense. Rose explains, “The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self- contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.”

Government “authority” can be summed up as the right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral obligation to obey.’ [MORE] FUNKTIONARY defines authority as ‘a cartoon, an alleged image of the Law or the notion of an implied right and application of that "right" of individuals or groups of same to control or exercise external power over others, which has no meaning in reality.’ FUNKTIONARY further states, authority is rule through coercion. The real threat to "authority" is the masses overcoming info-gaps and verigaps through self-knowledge and the proliferation of symbols of opposition, not crime or destruction of property.”

Authority is a “cartoon” or an “image of law” because “people cannot delegate rights they do not have, which makes it impossible for anyone to acquire the right to rule (”authority”). People cannot alter morality, which makes the “laws” of “government” devoid of any inherent “authority.” Ergo, “authority”-the right to rule-cannot logically exist. The concept itself is self-contradictory, like the concept of a “militant pacifist.” A human being cannot have superhuman rights, and therefore no one can have the inherent right to rule.’ [MORE]