The mindset of police is that they are the supreme authoritarians. Most of them are robocops. Personal needs you may have are not on their agenda. This makes many of them agents of repression since they generally support the ruling class.

Their M.O. is just "doing their job" which is the detached apology that is given for their physical violence, mistreatment and bullying. There are those here who maintain that innocent protesters who are mistreated deserve what they got.

This is an index of the mounting fascism that we see in the world today.

Free speech is to be punished, not rewarded in a pseudo-democratic society.


There are those protesters such as the so-called "black box anarchists" who should be restrained from their violent actions and in this, police are justified for making their arrests. Ideally, police work should include decisions based on justice rather than blind prejudice and there are police who understand this and are interested in enhancing the common good.

The problem is not so much with the police as with the system that enables their bad behavior.

Also, the latin legal term "Cui bono?" is applicable here.