When I was a child I read picture story books which taught me that this was the purpose of police - to help citizens. They showed old ladies being helped across the road by humble bobbies and exhorted me to seek the nearest policeman if I ever became lost.
In adulthood it didn't take too many encounters with actual police to realise that they don't see their purpose the same way AT ALL.
In adulthood it didn't take too many encounters with actual police to realise that they don't see their purpose the same way AT ALL.