It's not incompetence, it's intentional. If police can mistreat you, it makes you scared to do anything that draws attention to yourself. US police departments

It's not incompetence, it's intentional. If police can mistreat you, it makes you scared to do anything that draws attention to yourself. US police departments grew out of municipal slave catching patrols, and union busters. They're closer to prison guards than civil servants. Here's a piece by the NAACP on the ties to slave patrols: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-m... The Slave Patrol Oath from North Carolina is uncanny how it echoes modern US policing.