Secret police historically self-financed through the crimes they policed.

Evidence

Prison and police form a twin mechanism; together they assure in the whole field of illegalities the differentiation, isolation and use of delinquency. In the illegalities, the police-prison system segments a manipulable delinquency. This delinquency, with its specificity, is a result of the system; but it also becomes a part and an instrument of it. So that one should speak of an ensemble whose three terms (police-prison-delinquency) support one another and form a circuit that is never interrupted. Police surveillance provides the prison with offenders, which the prison transforms into delinquents, the targets and auxiliaries of police supervisions, which regularly send back a certain number of them to prison. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432 (#expands, via linked claim)

The conditions to which the free inmates are subjected necessarily condemn them to recidivism: they are under the surveillance of the police; they are assigned to a particular residence, or forbidden others; ‘they leave prison with a passport that they must show everywhere they go and which mentions the sentence that they have served’ (Barbé Marbois, 17). Being on the loose, being unable to find work, leading the life of a vagabond are the most frequent factors in recidivism. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 406 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence; Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432; Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 406

Related

• Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime (similarity 0.86)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.81)
• Police recruited delinquents as informers by promising them indulgence (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432
• Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence #complicates (0.75)
• Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime #exemplifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 406