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They're human beings who have chosen to sell their body and will to the state to be used as a cudgel to enforce the state's will through violence. We would prefer that they voluntarily stop participating in the oppression, but if they don't they are willingly taking up arms against the disenfranchised, which means I have less than zero sympathy when they get what's coming to them.
"The state's will" in most cases is to stop a murderer or a robber or whatnot.
People work for the police not to become the instrument of the state, but to prevent actual crimes. The rest sadly often comes after.
Y'all acting like cops are just useless parasites - good luck surviving a week in a modern word without them.
Poorly educated take lol
They are legally and mentally the big dick of the law.
I wonder what's your definition of "education", then. I am familiar with several sources on anarchist theory, which is seemingly what you appeal for.
Policemen are instruments of law, of course. But not having them means all laws become impossible to enforce - and I'd kindly like to be protected from murder, arson, robbery, assault, fraud etc.
In an established anarchist society it is theorized to be possible to go without laws by various means, but our world is not that.
People become police because it is a job a with decent pay and provides authority.
Police doesn't "prevent" crime. Police protects property of the owner class and desrvea their needs. Sometimes they help a wage worker if it is not too inconvenient for them but they can also ruin your life.
Yeah because cops have always existed
In before times, crimes were easier to stop as people primarily lived in small communities and it was easy to find out and exclude people, which then often meant death.
But even still, plenty of today's crimes were rampant. As much as I'd love to see anarchism in action, this requires core changes to the structure of society, and we're not at the point where getting rid of police will be a positive step forward.
Police doesn't stop crime, it never has and it never will. You have to get this idea out of your head.