Many anarchists hate cops because cops are part of “the state.” True enough, from one angle. But seen from another, it might be more useful to think of them as a political bloc with their own interests, maybe even a “class fraction” or a Weberian status-group. As Stuart Schrader has argued, this is especially true now, after several rounds of neoliberal “police reform” efforts that entrenched police identity and their sense of group interest through “professionalization” and t...
