LOSS OF AUTHORITY
Authority is the attribute that gives a person, position, or profession the right to give orders. It is also the quality that ensures that an order is followed. Therefore, having authority means both giving commands and being obeyed. This authority, within a social consensus, is based on a legitimate recognition of those who demand it; Politicians, judges, police officers, as well as bosses, teachers, and parents, among others, are figures of authority.
But authority can also be lost, either through misuse or abuse, or through a lack of legitimacy. Authority is based on values and principles accepted by the majority, and it is forced to uphold them and set an example.
When a misuse of authority is combined with the fact that this new society is raised with the idea that the world revolves around the individual, and constantly bombarded with messages of freedom and rights, it causes them to perceive authority as a figure of repression, losing respect for it.
Civilian citizens are forced to help a pair of police officers in subduing an aggressive individual who was being detained.
A police officer in Seville (Spain) uses a stun gun to subdue and separate a detainee from their companions. Pay attention to the slap that the police officer gives to a woman who is also involved. Is it an abuse of authority? Or a legitimate slap?
In the United Kingdom, officers make arrests in a quiet residential community. Pay attention to the end of the video.
A small group of police officers are cornered and assaulted in Barcelona (Spain) by radicals associated with a soccer team.
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