"So the person is a statist?"

Well, he's a cop, so he's pretty much as statist as it gets lol.

I feel like some people can be "statists" in so far as they believe in government, perhaps just because they haven't thought about it much or don't really care, but are perfectly good people. And other people are truly statist in their behavior. He was the latter for sure.

"Anyways, the desire for control is what you're getting at. I see that. It's a good story to show how fair responsibility was not being applied, it was just blind rules being applied without context of the reality. The rules were blocking their ability to see the situation accurately and fairly."

Right! The rules were no way a mechanism to apply fair responsibility. They were just about him and whatever was going on in his head. (under the illusion of it being about fairness.)