The job of police is enforcing oppression. They shake down homeless people, bust black and brown kids for nonviolent crimes, evict poor families from their homes, disrupt peaceful protests, write tickets to people they know can't afford it (ensuring they become trapped in debt to the state), facilitate brutal deportation campaigns against undocumented workers, send people to jail where they can be forced into literal slave labor, and protect the private property of the wealthy.
Even so-called "good" cops have to do those things or they get fired. As the right wing begins to enact its agenda in this country, they will probably be required to do even worse things. It doesn't matter if they're nice dudes who love their families or pet dogs. So what if they're not literal monsters 100% of the time? Nobody is. Their job requires doing shit that no good person should be comfortable doing.
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