Madison's argument is commonly cited in favor of civilian control of the military. But it applies as much to the police and their "war on crime," in which the "enemy" is not some foreign power but the public, or some portion of the public. "There's now a dominant military culture within modern police agencies," writes Radley Balko in Rise of the Warrior Cop. "Cops are told all the time that the public presents a threat to them, and that the threat grows more dire by the day."

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Madison's argument is commonly cited in favor of civilian control of the military. But it applies as much to the police and their "war on crime," in which the "enemy" is not some foreign power but the public, or some portion of the public. "There's now a dominant military culture within modern police agencies," writes Radley Balko in Rise of the Warrior Cop. "Cops are told all the time that the public presents a threat to them, and that the threat grows more dire by the day."" in the context of "Adam Serwer, The Cruelty is the Point (2021)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.