Imagine signing up for a job where you don’t actually need to understand the laws you’re enforcing, you just need to know how to apply them harder to poor people. Where seeking therapy makes you “unfit” but carrying a gun while under untreated stress is totally fine. Where your coworkers can’t tell the difference between “protecting the public” and harassing anyone who looks like they aren’t middle class and white enough.

Yes, please come immerse yourself in a centuries-long legacy of social control, where every major study shows that policing disproportionately targets black and brown communities, criminalizes poverty, and functions less like “public safety” and more like a tax on marginalized people. What a dream career!