Police
Police are organizations operated by the state whose primary purpose is to protect the ruling class and their continued rule, through the means of whatever violence on their part is “necessary”. They are either always armed, or occasionally (in a few countries) unarmed, but who can quickly become armed if need arises. They may have, on occasion, other auxiliary duties, such as traffic control, but by far their most important and central purpose is to protect the rule of one social class or another.[1]
Under capitalism, this means that their primary and most essential task is to safeguard the rich, their property, and their exploitative system of capitalist class rule. Capitalist police also function as strike-breakers, evictors of the homeless, and agents of state terrorism.[2]
By country
United States
Police in the United States are generally extremely racist with few exceptions. There have even been a very large number of murders of unarmed Black Americans in particular by racist white cops just in the past few years as of 2024. The exact number of racist killings perpetrated by police in the United States will likely always be unknown, and only now is a database being created to gather this data for just some of the police departments in the US.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Sam Mitrani (January 6 2015). "The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not ‘Serve and Protect’" In These Times.
- ↑ "And a white hood on every corner" (April 2 2023). The Red Phoenix.
- ↑ Erika Hayasaki (2015). Police Racism: A Search for Answers UCLA Blueprint.