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> it's what a significant portion of them always fantasize about doing ffs…

This. I think it's often absolutely the case that the cops as individuals and as a cultural cluster are constantly hoping to get to use all their fancy toys and inflict pain. You can see it in their body language. And of course it's also what personality types are drawn to these jobs, to urban policing, and to the riot units.

Which feels a bit weird to admit, since the usual counter to this problem is to control them through the police hierarchy, which in turn is controlled by PR, political pressures, funding needs. Insert plug for The Wire. What's more, the protests of course are really intend to apply this kind of political pressure -- and this includes, I'd argue, the defunding approach, revolutionary rhetoric aside. What's an anarchist to say and do about this?