It is. It’s informative because people like to talk about “the police” as a homogeneous group of people who all think and act the same way; as if a rural sheriff in Alaska is the same person as a beat cop in NYC or a camera operator in London.
This sort of stereotyping is problematic, because you can’t fix problems if you can’t differentiate between dysfunctional and functional. You can’t make changes if you alienate the good with the bad. And you can’t make things better if you’re making global changes without understanding local context.
cgriswold didn’t offer any real-world details, only 2 abstract principles. In contrast, saying “the police where I live do act like they have ‘make people’s lives better’ as part of their mandate” is an observation on a local reality
