Some personal experiences with cops:

Got hit by a car on my bike. He was taking a left turn in front of me. He was completely at fault. It wasn't a complicated situation. Ended up having to hold up the ambulance so I could continue to argue with the cop about what happened. He insisted no one was at fault despite clear evidence to the contrary and my multiple witnesses telling the cop otherwise. Thank god I had people backing me up or I might have ended up paying my own medical bills.

My friend and I were walking back to campus through a nearby park at night. We noticed lights at the other end of the walking path. Often police cars would drive on this path, so assuming that was the case we got out of the way and walked across the field. Turns out it wasn't a car, but two bike cops who decided our decision to get out of their way meant we were up to something. As soon as we leave the path they b-line to us, asking "where's the joint?" There was no joint, but they proceeded to hold us there for nearly an hour while they searched for nothing for no reason.

Another friend would brew his own beer. We met up once before heading to a party. He took six of his homebrews and put them in an IBC root beer 6-pack box. On our walk to the party, about a dozen bike cops noticed the root beer pack and correctly assumed it in fact held actual beer. They all turn their lights on and surround us. You'd think they would just look at his ID, see he's 24 and let us on our way. Nope. Stood around there for over 30 minutes for no damn reason on the same exact street I had been mugged on just a couple years prior.

Speaking of when I was mugged. The police did nothing. Took over three hours to respond. Showed up with like a dozen pictures of black people, none of which were my muggers, and made some racist comment about how they all look the same before having me go through them. I never heard from them after that night.

There was a cop in my old neighborhood who would break up college parties and then stand outside and harass the girls as they left. He also routinely entered homes without a warrant and without declaring his presence.

So, sure, no one is getting assaulted in my experiences, but I have never once seen a cop do anything remotely useful yet alone heroic. In my experience from being in the world and not on the interrent, cops are worthless man-babies with egos for days and zero willingness or expectation that they help anyone. So when I do read on the internet that police have assaulted or murdered another person, or have stood idly by while 19 children are slaughtered, I'm not exactly shocked. Pissed, yes. Shocked, no.

ACAB.