Not even a warlord because their primary role would be instruction, organization, and conflict resolution. Remember tribal chiefs in hunter gatherer societies lead their warriors through consensus rather than authority. They can't make anybody do anything they don't want to do.
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I guess you're trying to present an idealized vision of law enforcement. Humans don't really act like this though. They're much more likely to act like this guypic.twitter.com/g5E9rTN7fF
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Judge Dredd is an idealized version of law enforcement. He is never shown to abuse his authority in any way. The problem is Mega City one defines all human activity as a crime. The comics present a society with a near 100% unemployment rate and prohibitions against everything.
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Judge Dredd is an archonic nightmare. He represents the ultimate degeneration of law enforcement into pure violence. "Everything is illegal" is another way of stating "there is no such thing as the law". Dredd's statement is ironic and tragic.
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In other words, he is the perfect warlord. Nothing matters besides his ability to use force, and he can use that force against anyone he chooses, for any reason he chooses.
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anyway, my point isn't to analyze a dystopian fiction. my point is that real people don't behave in the way you have suggested. if law enforcement is fundamentally about behavior control, it has to be tuned to the way people really behave, and that includes the enforcers.
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I'm literally proposing we stop trying to control behavior, and instead relegate the "Warlord archetype" to something more akin to a gym teacher than somebody with actual authority.
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In a tribal society, a chief leads his warriors by being the most charismatic member of the tribe, they all have the same spears he does. He simply convinces them to direct their aggression away from the village. There is no need for coercion or hierarchy. Just direction.
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