I didn't mean a literal licence to kill any more than I meant my job is exclusively teachings to tie their shoes and count to ten.

Yes, the majority of police recruits are bootlicking war-LARPing jackasses. Who the hell else would sign up to oppress and control people? There's a reason there an't many former kindergarten teachers who become cops because it requires this special feature called "empathy" and these things called "morals." None of which you could have if you drive around a lightweight battle tank wearing a bulletproof vest with guns, pepper spray, tazers, nightsticks, and handcuffs on your belt and still are unwilling to actually save literal children from a mass shooter.

ACAB bar none. Anyone who joins the police is advertising their fascism fetish.