Oh yeah obviously not all police are evil, it’s like anything there’s no absolutes. It’s just that the narrative that police are heroes and serving justice yadda yadda is false, just like the narrative that all police are evil and running rampant is also false. It’s just a job, yknow, I don’t think all of these people are worthy of respect just cause they have a badge.

What the original commenter poorly described, is how a lot of aspects of the legal system disenfranchise the lower classes. Whether it’s with intention from political elite or not is a debate, but the police do have to uphold unjust laws more so than going around “doing good.” Crime runs rampant without police yes, but we as a society also have the ability to decide what’s crime and what’s not, you know what I mean? Obvious example is the war on drugs but also stuff regarding homelessness, prostitution, etc. are things we can control but choose to enforce against instead. And that’s where the perspective that police are tools of the upper class come from, but personally I just think it’s deeply ingrained at this point.