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by 101404 2208 days ago
> Police don't defend normal people or communities, that's not their job. Their job is to enforce the law, no matter how unjust the law is.

That's the difference between calling them "police" or calling them "law enforcement".

I think that it is no coincidence that Americans were "trained" to say "law enforcement".

Call them police, because a police officers first duty is to the community.