Feynman

Well, come to think of it: it makes them brownie point for curbing vice while making them fairly safe from violence. It is the epitome in the application of violence: apply violence to consenting individual under the BS argument of protecting them.

It is well knows that if you witness a crime commited, the response time is always very long, that they make SURE they arrive on the crime scene AFTER there is no danger.

The cops are not in the business of protecting the population but of MAINTAINING ORDER.

Thus, their job is not to prevent the initiation of violence but to initiate it against individuals who threatens the order. Thugs threatens the order very little, as they are a justification for the cop's salaries. The cops have no incentive to remove them, unless it escalates and creates demands on their leash-holders, the politicians. Witness the Toronto situation.

Prostitution is the exercice of one's freedom of choice. Ditto for adult drug use. This, they like to crack on (probably to pocket he crack themselves).

The big crackdown on drug distribution are not done to eradicate drugs from the market but to protect the the gang that gets police protection.

In the early 80's, downtown Montreal, there were two opposing clans distributing dope. The cops did everything to bust one of the two clans because the other one were headed / paid protection money to the police. Fact.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Cops, when enforcing the Criminal Code of Canada (or most other "laws", in facts legislations) are NOT acting as "peace officers" but as wardens maintaining order troubled by you, a ward of the crown (slave). They enforce laws against "persons", (in law "legal fictions")That's a fact. Don't ever tell that a the judge though, he'll rip you a new ass hole, these are Verboten words in court.

Anyway, that stuff, all of it is in the Matrix movies.