Editing Police

[[File:Minneapolis George Floyd protests.png|thumb|Police in Minneapolis during the [[George Floyd protests]]]]
The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class|date=2014-08-12|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-date=2021-04-14|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

== By country ==

=== United Kingdom ===
[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] police have infiltrated over 1,000 political, environmental, and social justice groups. They maintain a secret blacklist of radicals who are barred from jobs.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lowkey|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups|date=2021-08-05|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/spycops-how-the-uk-police-infiltrated-1000-activists-groups/278164/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125080142/https://www.mintpressnews.com/spycops-how-the-uk-police-infiltrated-1000-activists-groups/278164/|archive-date=2022-01-25|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref>

=== United States ===
The police in the [[United States of America|United States]] were created to put down resistance to [[settler colonialism]] and [[slavery]] and repress urban workers, mostly immigrants. U.S. Police have killed 1,000 or more people every year from 2013-2022.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence|title=Police Killed (#) People in the US in (year)|date=2023-03-08|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/|archive-date=2023-03-07|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref>Police in [[African diaspora in the United States|Black]], Latino, or indigenous communities act as an occupying army.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=How can police brutality be stopped?|date=2005-06-02|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303054351/https://www.liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/|archive-date=2022-03-03|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|date=2020-07-11|title=How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704215211/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-will-the-police-be-abolished-a-marxist-perspective/|archive-date=2022-07-04|retrieved=2022-12-24}}</ref> Black people are 2.9 times as likely to be killed by police as white people,<ref>{{Web citation|author=|newspaper=Mapping Police Violence|title=Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013–2022|date=2023-03-08|url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307134851/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/|archive-date=2023-03-07|retrieved=2023-03-08}}</ref> and murders by police are a leading cause of death for Black men.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020|date=2020-12-28|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023104355/https://www.mintpressnews.com/killer-cops-police-killed-1000-americans-2020/273942/|archive-date=2021-10-23|retrieved=2022-10-09}}</ref> Police brutality was the main cause of the [[George Floyd protests|2020 George Floyd protests]]. U.S. police also work with far-right groups such as the [[Oath Keepers]], [[Project Veritas]], and [[Traditionalist Worker Party]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Ted Rall|newspaper=[[Counterpunch]]|title=The Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists|date=2018-11-08|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125123400/https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/08/the-awful-reason-police-dont-go-after-right-wing-extremists/|archive-date=2021-11-25|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref>

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 [[File:Minneapolis George Floyd protests.png|thumb|Police in Minneapolis during the [[George Floyd protests]]]]
 The '''police''' are state body that has the monopoly on the legal use of force. Under [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois governments]], they are used to repress the [[working class]] and protect the profits of the [[bourgeoisie]]. They break [[Strike action|strikes]] and carry out evictions.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class|date=2014-08-12|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414233420/https://www.liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/|archive-date=2021-04-14|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>
-== Firearm use ==
-[[File:Police firearm use by country.png|thumb|Countries with unarmed police]]
-=== Unarmed police ===
-The vast majority of police forces worldwide routinely carry firearms, usually to better suppress the proletariat, but some police forces do not regularly carry firearms except in exceptional circumstances, often in order to maintain the pretence they are "ethical". These countries and territories are: [[Kingdom of Bhutan|Bhutan]], [[Republic of Botswana|Botswana]], [[Cook Islands]], [[Republic of Fiji|Fiji]], [[Iceland]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Republic of Kiribati|Kiribati]], [[Republic of Malawi|Malawi]], [[Republic of the Marshall Islands|Marshall Islands]], [[Republic of Nauru|Nauru]], [[New Zealand]], [[Niue]], [[Kingdom of Norway|Norway]], [[Independent State of Samoa|Samoa]], [[Solomon Islands]], [[Kingdom of Tonga|Tonga]], [[Tuvalu]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom]] (excluding [[Occupied Ireland]]), the [[Virgin Islands of the United States|U.S. Virgin Islands]] and [[Republic of Vanuatu|Vanuatu]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=World Population Review|title=Countries Where Police Don't Carry Guns 2024|date=2024|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-where-police-dont-carry-guns}}</ref>
 == By country ==