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>Police depts. are necessary, in recognition that the first role of govt in a free society is the protection of individual rights.
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Hmmm they must have read a different book than you did:

>>We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.