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	=== United States ===		=== United States ===
	The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act as an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police are a leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>		The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act as an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police are a leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>

			== See also ==

			* [[Pig]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>		The '''police''' are a state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

	== Origins ==		== Origins ==
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	== Role of the police ==		== Role of the police ==
	The police exist to protect the [[class character]] of the [[state]]. Everyday police work involves patrolling: monitoring a specific area, where police become used to the area, gain experience using force, and identify local radicals. Patrolling lays the groundwork for suppressing uprisings.<ref name=":0" />		The police exist to protect the [[class character]] of the [[state]]. Everyday police work involves patrolling: monitoring a specific area, where police become used to the area, gain experience using force, and identify local radicals. Patrolling, in other words, is a means of gathering intelligence. Patrolling lays the groundwork for suppressing uprisings.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Crime ===		=== Crime ===

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	== By country ==		== By country ==

			=== People's Republic of China ===
			In ''Revolutionary Suicide'', [[Huey P. Newton]] notes with surprise that during his visit to the [[People's Republic of China]], the police there actually existed to support the people, unlike the "occupying, repressive force" they represented back home in the United States:

			<blockquote>"[The] behaviour of the police in China was a revelation to me. They are there to protect and help the people, not to oppress them. Their courtesy was genuine; no division or suspicion exists between them and the citizens."<ref>{{Citation\|author=Huey P. Newton\|year=1973\|title=Revolutionary Suicide\|chapter=Chapter 32\|chapter-url=https://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2015/10/from-archives-black-panthers-in-china.html\|quote=For instance, the behaviour of the police in China was a revelation to me. They are there to protect and help the people, not to oppress them. Their courtesy was genuine; no division or suspicion exists between them and the citizens. This impressed me so much that when I returned to the United States and was met by the Tactical Squad at the San Francisco airport(they had been called out because nearly a thousand people came to the airport to welcome us back), it was brought home to me all over again that the police in our country are an occupying, repressive force. I pointed this out to a customs officer in San Francisco, a Black man who was armed, explaining to him that I felt intimidated seeing all the guns around. I had just left a country, I told him, where the army and the police are not in opposition to the people but are their servants.}}</ref></blockquote>

	=== United Kingdom ===		=== United Kingdom ===

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	== Origins ==		== Origins ==
	In the early stages of [[capitalism]], when the [[bourgeoisie]] and [[proletariat]] were beginning to ~~form distinct~~ classes, the bourgeoisie needed a way to keep the proletariat under control. Previously, individual employers such as [[guild]] masters were able to deal with individual employees on their own because of the close relationship between the two parties, who often lived in the same building for years. In contrast, the new proletarian class could not be managed on an individual level because it organized itself — and therefore acted — collectively.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=David Whitehouse\|newspaper=Works in Theory\|title=Origins of the police\|date=2014-12-07\|url=https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the-police/\|retrieved=2025-06-21}}</ref>		In the early stages of [[capitalism]], when the [[bourgeoisie]] and [[proletariat]] were beginning to grow and entrench themselves as [[Social class\|classes]], the bourgeoisie needed a way to keep the proletariat under control. Previously, individual employers such as [[guild]] masters were able to deal with individual employees on their own because of the close relationship between the two parties, who often lived in the same building for years. In contrast, the new proletarian class could not be managed on an individual level because it organized itself — and therefore acted — collectively.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=David Whitehouse\|newspaper=Works in Theory\|title=Origins of the police\|date=2014-12-07\|url=https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the-police/\|retrieved=2025-06-21}}</ref>

	When the [[England\|English]] proletariat reacted to its worsening living and working conditions with mass demonstrations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the English bourgeoisie originally deployed the army to attack them, but killing demonstrators backfired by creating martyrs and further angering workers. Instructing the army to control crowds through nonviolent means was also ineffective, so a new institution had to be created to control the working class that would be violent, but ideally nonlethal. In 1829, [[Parliament of the United Kingdom\|Parliament]] passed the Metropolitan Police Act and the first modern police force was formed.<ref name=":0" />		When the [[England\|English]] proletariat reacted to its worsening living and working conditions with mass demonstrations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the English bourgeoisie originally deployed the army to attack them, but killing demonstrators backfired by creating martyrs and further angering workers. Instructing the army to control crowds through nonviolent means was also ineffective, so a new institution had to be created to control the working class that would be violent, but ideally nonlethal. In 1829, [[Parliament of the United Kingdom\|Parliament]] passed the Metropolitan Police Act and the first modern police force was formed.<ref name=":0" />

	== Role of the police ==		== Role of the police ==
	The police exist to ~~uphold~~ [[class ~~dictatorship~~]]. Everyday police work involves patrolling: monitoring a specific area, where police become used to the area, gain experience using force, and identify local radicals. Patrolling lays the groundwork for suppressing uprisings.<ref name=":0" />		The police exist to protect the [[class character]] of the [[state]]. Everyday police work involves patrolling: monitoring a specific area, where police become used to the area, gain experience using force, and identify local radicals. Patrolling lays the groundwork for suppressing uprisings.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Crime ===		=== Crime ===

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 The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class|date=2014-08-12|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-date=2021-04-14|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>
 == Firearm use ==

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	The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>		The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

			== Firearm use ==
			[[File:Police firearm use by country.png\|thumb\|Countries with unarmed police]]

			=== Unarmed police ===
			The vast majority of police forces worldwide routinely carry firearms, usually to better suppress the proletariat, but some police forces do not regularly carry firearms except in exceptional circumstances, often in order to maintain the pretence they are "ethical". These countries and territories are: [[Kingdom of Bhutan\|Bhutan]], [[Republic of Botswana\|Botswana]], [[Cook Islands]], [[Republic of Fiji\|Fiji]], [[Iceland]], [[Republic of Ireland\|Ireland]], [[Republic of Kiribati\|Kiribati]], [[Republic of Malawi\|Malawi]], [[Republic of the Marshall Islands\|Marshall Islands]], [[Republic of Nauru\|Nauru]], [[New Zealand]], [[Niue]], [[Kingdom of Norway\|Norway]], [[Independent State of Samoa\|Samoa]], [[Solomon Islands]], [[Kingdom of Tonga\|Tonga]], [[Tuvalu]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\|United Kingdom]] (excluding [[Occupied Ireland]]), the [[Virgin Islands of the United States\|U.S. Virgin Islands]] and [[Republic of Vanuatu\|Vanuatu]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=World Population Review\|title=Countries Where Police Don't Carry Guns 2024\|date=2024\|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-where-police-dont-carry-guns}}</ref>

	== By country ==		== By country ==

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	The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act ~~like~~ an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police ~~area~~ leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>		The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act as an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police are a leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==

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	The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>		The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

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	=== United States ===		=== United States ===
	The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act like an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.5 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=~~Linda Chong~~\|newspaper=~~The Bottom Line~~\|title=~~Why All Cops Are Bad~~\|date=~~2020~~-06-06\|url=https://~~thebottomline~~.~~as.ucsb.edu/2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad~~\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/~~20220913140538~~/https://~~thebottomline~~.~~as.ucsb.edu~~/~~2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad~~\|archive-date=~~2022~~-09-13\|retrieved=~~2022~~-09-25}}</ref> and murders by police area leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>		The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act like an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=\|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence\|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022\|date=2023-03-08\|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/\|archive-date=2023-03-07\|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police area leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
	<references />		<references />
	[[Category:Police]]		[[Category:Police]]

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	The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the bourgeoisie. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>		The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action\|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class\|date=2014-08-12\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/\|archive-date=2021-04-14\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

	== By country ==		== By country ==
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	=== United States ===		=== United States ===
	In the ~~[[White supremacy\|white supremacist]]~~ [[United States of America\|United States]], ~~police~~ in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]] communities act like an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref> Black people are 2.5 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Linda Chong\|newspaper=The Bottom Line\|title=Why All Cops Are Bad\|date=2020-06-06\|url=https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913140538/https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad\|archive-date=2022-09-13\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref> and murders by police area leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>		The police in the [[United States of America\|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. Police in [[African diaspora in the United States\|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act like an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=How can police brutality be stopped?\|date=2005-06-02\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/\|archive-date=2022-03-03\|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|date=2020-07-11\|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/\|archive-date=2022-07-04\|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.5 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Linda Chong\|newspaper=The Bottom Line\|title=Why All Cops Are Bad\|date=2020-06-06\|url=https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913140538/https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2020/06/why-all-cops-are-bad\|archive-date=2022-09-13\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref> and murders by police area leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]\|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]\|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020\|date=2020-12-28\|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/\|archive-date=2021-10-23\|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests\|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Ted Rall\|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]\|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists\|date=2018-11-08\|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/\|archive-date=2021-11-25\|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
	<references />		<references />
	[[Category:Police]]		[[Category:Police]]