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In developed countries they serve the people instead of just the ruling class. Get out of your country sometime. Not everywhere is as bleak as yours.
I wonder where you think I'm from..
Either way, you're the one who needs to expand their narrow view, not me.. Here are some links I happen to have to hand, feel free to look things up for yourself in your own time (lol, as if..)
https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again
https://www.enainstitute.org/en/publication/mark-neocleous-capitalism-was-created-by-the-police-power-interview-at-ena-institute/
Well, that's a product of capitalism not the US. It's more blatant in the US, but it's how any capitalist society is organized.
It's a structural property of capitalism, not any nations specific implementation of policing.