
Quoting
theunrealthing
People misunderstand the role of police in society. In addition to enforcing the laws, their job is to maintain social stability, and that means protecting the large institutions from threats to their economic well-being such as legal threats. Lawsuits cost big money, and if they ran rampant any large employer could be quickly sent under. The FBI and police see crime victims as another form of threat to social order, and are treated as national security threats in much the same way as a terrorist would, since they could do as much or more damage to the big institutions that serve the needs of the population and keep the economy running. The police harass people all the time, and are criminals themselves. We don't need to get into all the literature on that though. The police are a gang of criminal thugs that the wealthy and government command to send after people that they don't like.
It was an interesting example at my former university. We noticed they have a police department. Did you ever notice that a large employer such as a major hospital, or a major business district will often have their own little police department? These anomalous situation expose the relationship between the police and social institutions. In the case of the university, the police department was the product of the university -- that is, the university erected the police department to protect the property of that institution. And the police primarily serve to protect the property of the institutions that serve as the city's primary tax base. Who do you think that university police department is interested in arresting? Do you think they are interested in arresting professors? No -- they are interested in arresting students. And when a student reports harassment, the school flags the student to the school's own police department for retaliation. And the school's police department has ties to all the other police departments, and the FBI, etc, who then carry out the neutralization job, to protect social order and ensure that the employer survives so as to not disrupt the economy.