Yes. They're basically thugs for the system to keep the staus quo. Their role as law enforcement agents is admirable when done to protect the community. However, it's quite another when their job causes harm to the community they should be protecting.
In my country, they aren't necessarily thugs, rather useful idiots, normies with badges... With a salary and a pension depending on their capacity to not understand the problem...
It's that painful to contemplate...
I understand what you're saying. But from what I see, these useful idiots do become thugs for the system occasionally. It is disturbing to consider though.
Reminds of the end of clockwork orange, the movie, when the main character meets his former pals, with whom he used to do hyper violent home invasions... https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?t=6
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