The Good Cop – a short story

The Libertarian Institute · Nov 2, 2026

Raul had been a police man for most of his life, since the age of nineteen. He was now fifty-six. His first arrest was a thief, an old man who had stolen a neighbours cow. He had since thrown trade unionist into prison, had beaten starving wives as they begged for bread while their husbands picketed. France in the 1930s changed government as regular as the seasons, with it laws came and went. Raul and his fellow police men obeyed them all. He was not political, even if all laws were. When the socialists were in, he enforced for them, the nationalists, for them, and so on.

Then came the war…