re: #84 John Hughes

#7: To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

By 1970, Joseph Wambaugh was writing police insider novels that showed that had decayed into overt us-against-them war on a large urban force. Probably can be found all the way back to the origins of US policing. Racism makes it vicious, but it transcends race.