Police forces, since their inception in the 1800s, have always been about protecting capital's interests on the tax payers dime. In the U.S. this started as wa

Police forces, since their inception in the 1800s, have always been about protecting capital's interests on the tax payers dime. In the U.S. this started as warehouse protection, where rich merchants didn't want to hire their own security. They also, in parallel, grew from slave patrols (which were about protecting capital, back in the era when humans were considered a commodity).