7924 (An Act Creating the MMDA) "did not grant the MMDA with
police power, nor legislative power, and that all of MMDA's functions are administrative in nature."
The petitioners argued that Republic Act 7924, the law that created the MMDA, does not give the agency
police power or legislative power to implement.
In the wake of the killings, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala alleged that "goons and
police power" were being used to suppress people.
The Use and Abuse of
Police Power in America: Historical Milestones and Current Controversies
(44) This approach allows uncompensated
police powerIt was intended to determine whether the assaults occurred in the context of an officer carrying out a common law
police power that in some way connected to common law duties.
Likewise, there being no grant of
police power to a state government, the only place state police have
police power is on state property, mostly on state roads.
I see this as an abuse of
police power and an infringement of civil liberties.
Police power as a technology for governance is explored by scholars of politics, law, and criminology.