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[Pat Mustard]

No, they weren't right. The SCOTUS may decide that those things are not  part of a cop's duties, but each state may further define in law what it demands of police.

If people with guns, badges, and qualified immunity aren’t there to protect the public, then they are there to oppress the public. I don’t see any other options.

Boru

Given that in the US the police are descended from the posse comitatis (a group brought togeter to act as a lynch mob to capture escaped slaves and, after the civil war to murder uppity n*****s) and private armies like the Pinkertons (most of whose income was derived from activities like breaking up legal trade union activities), the role of the police in the US has always been the latter. It is an army occupation, nothing else.