It’s not. It’s to protect and preserve the state FROM the public. The role of police is to do violence to citizens of a state on behalf of that state. They are the only party with the lawful authority to do that. That’s their raison d’etre and everything else that they do is just indoctrination and propaganda.
Ya. I thought they’d explicitly said their job wasn’t to protect and serve the public.
It’s not. It’s to protect and preserve the state FROM the public. The role of police is to do violence to citizens of a state on behalf of that state. They are the only party with the lawful authority to do that. That’s their raison d’etre and everything else that they do is just indoctrination and propaganda.