If you review the history of police in America, this is definitely incorrect. Police evolved out of night watches, slave patrols, and a variety of other loose

If you review the history of police in America, this is definitely incorrect. Police evolved out of night watches, slave patrols, and a variety of other loose organizations meant to guard capital. In the mid 1800s, the first patrolling police departments were formed in the northeast, and the practice spread across the country. The police very much operated like a gang through to the early 20th century. There are many, many documented instances of police attacking, eg, the Irish in Boston. They often made allies with organized crime, and corruption was commonplace. Later, the police were literally fighting unions. Again, there are many instances of police disrupting union events with violence including open gunfire on union members. The Jim Crow era certainly had police doing innumerable, terrible things. Through the later parts of the 20th century the police were arresting, beating, and extorting people for being gay. The modern Pride parades trace their origins to a riot against police violence. Over the decades that followed, police got more and more military equipment, no knock raids became more common, and police became considerably more militarised. Fast forward to today, where police are regularly killing unarmed, fleeing, or otherwise unthreatening black men and women. There's no era in American history where the police were the good guys. Maybe to the straight white land owning folk, but police boots have always been on the neck of someone in this country.