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Holding Things Together

This chapter takes up the issue of how a police power defined, in practice, by the dialogical accommodation of disorder can effectively uphold a solidary political community. It gives insight of an ideal of balance among sentiment, reason, and law, and uses this ideal to continually renew attunement to the potentialities of worldhood that is emergent from human togetherness. The chapter also explores police involvement in “order maintenance” work. It explains how the police engage certain issues through an idiom of a balance among sentiment, reason, and law. It also shows how patrolmen rely on this idiom to do their job, and how it provides a scaling logic for reconciling the localized concerns of “paichusuo” policing with more abstract ideas about state-based order.