In his book Critical Path Buckminster Fuller estimated that approximately 75% of the workforce was not engaged in the creation or supply of life support. He cited poloticians, insurance brokers/suppliers, beaurocrats, military and so on.

He didnt specifically mention police officers or the judicial system but I would personally put them in the same category. Not that I have a problem with police officers as human beings but I do see the profession as an extension of the price system in our current state of things.

Obstruct the flow of money and they are bound to be at your door. The number of people in prison for violent crimes does not even reach the top 10.

And have you noticed that we give the greatest financial reward and respect to those professions which are the most anti human? Lawyers and judges who abuse the law and personal freedoms, doctors who focus on disease but not health, priests who offer religion but not spirituality.....

As I have said, I have no personal objection to people who do these jobs, I just think that it is high time we re examine them.

And here is a great page from the Why Work site. A site dedicated to examining and possibly changing the wage slave ethic.
www.whywork.org/rethinking.../bucky.html