Okay, everybody, repeat after me: The America I once knew and loved is no more; Amerika v2.0 is indeed a banana republic, and in any banana republic the police are NOT my friends.
"During the 1788 ratification debates, the fear that the federal government would disarm the people in order to impose rule through a standing army or select militia was pervasive in Antifederalist rhetoric. See, e.g., Letters from The Federal Farmer III (Oct. 10, 1787), in 2 The Complete Anti-Federalist 234, 242 (H. Storing ed. 1981). John Smilie, for example, worried not only that Congress's "command of the militia" could be used to create a "select militia," or to have "no militia at all," but also, as a separate concern, that "[w]hen a select militia is formed; the people in general may be disarmed." 2 Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution 508-509 (M. Jensen ed. 1976) (hereinafter Documentary Hist.)" Scalia, C.J., in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) at p25, online source at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/07-290P.ZO
"During the 1788 ratification debates, the fear that the federal government would disarm the people in order to impose rule through a standing army or select militia was pervasive in Antifederalist rhetoric. See, e.g., Letters from The Federal Farmer III (Oct. 10, 1787), in 2 The Complete Anti-Federalist 234, 242 (H. Storing ed. 1981). John Smilie, for example, worried not only that Congress's "command of the militia" could be used to create a "select militia," or to have "no militia at all," but also, as a separate concern, that "[w]hen a select militia is formed; the people in general may be disarmed." 2 Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution 508-509 (M. Jensen ed. 1976) (hereinafter Documentary Hist.)" Scalia, C.J., in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) at p25, online source at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/07-290P.ZO
The police are an example of a select militia, they exist to serve the prerogatives and interests of the government which employs them. They have no legal duty to protect or serve the citizenry, either as individuals or as groups, although they may do so at their own discretion, see https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again and https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2592&context=vlr