Forced cooperation with police is definitely a usage of cooperate. If you’re only exposure to U.S. English is popular media, then I could see how you associate

Forced cooperation with police is definitely a usage of cooperate. If you’re only exposure to U.S. English is popular media, then I could see how you associate cooperate with a police context. However, I don’t think that’s the first thing people in the U.S. think of when they hear the word.