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The Monopoly of Violence

They will be identified and held accountable for their actsbefore the law

They will be identified and held accountable for their acts
before the law

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They will be identified
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and held accountable for their acts before the law.
Duration
7 seconds
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61
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:35
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

A group of citizens question and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of violent police force.
When people say the police use legitimate force - The Monopoly of Violence 00:14
When people say the police use legitimate force
There's a confusion with the political notion of legitimacy, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:10
There's a confusion with the political notion of legiti...
And that's different from lawfulness. That's the problem now in France. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
And that's different from lawfulness. That's the p...
The Minister can say. It's legal to use weapons - The Monopoly of Violence 00:11
The Minister can say. It's legal to use weapons
It's legal to use those weapons, so there's no problem. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's legal to use those weapons, so there's no pro...
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on violence. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on vi...
It's a condition of democracy. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of democracy.
It's a condition of shared well-being. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of shared well-being.
It's a condition of a modern republic. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
It's a condition of a modern republic.
What makes democ-tatorship, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What makes democ-tatorship,
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the ...
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades.
There have been a few rare moments in history - The Monopoly of Violence 00:21
There have been a few rare moments in history
That is to say we're united - The Monopoly of Violence 00:14
That is to say we're united
So if we accept that, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:08
So if we accept that,
We confuse the state and the police because the police is national. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
We confuse the state and the police because the police is na...
In most other countries it isn't national. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
In most other countries it isn't national.
So in France, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
So in France,
It's an error of interpretation both historically and geographically. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:06
It's an error of interpretation both historically and g...
In France, the police became the national police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:10
In France, the police became the national police