Police is your friend

This is coming from a place of immense anger.

I am furious that I was lied to as a kid.

"It is to protect you", they say.

I do not need your protection, save it

I would have preferred to be told the truth as a kid.

Something along the lines of "your future is in your hands"

"The country does not care about you".

If I had been told this instead of "police is your friend", I would have invested in crypto instead of watching zee world.

I was instead in my rainbow world filled with unicorns and cookies believing the world is a good place.

I might be exaggerating but still I'd have preferred the truth.

Particularly, this lie about the police being my friend ticks me off.

The image of the police I have in my head is very different from the one I have of the people I call friends.

The police is not my friend.

They would never be.

I see them as bald men with bulging stomach that is clearly too big for their undersized shirts.

I see men that are supposed to be protecting us pocketing bribe that they have forced to become a norm.

I mean, how is it normal that transporters who are struggling to make a living have to pay you like it's some tax.

I don't think it was part of the job description.

Some of them force smiles when they see you because at the end of the day, they don't have a choice.

I see men that would even ask for your mother's birth certificate if your vehicle credentials are complete. 

Men that would harass you to no end just to collect money from you. 

Now, they are no longer satisfied with peanuts from transporters. They now abduct people and extort them. 

These people have no choice but to pay because "when there is life, there is hope". 

I would rather drop my money than die too. 

They are supposed to protect us from evildoers but they are the evildoers. 

Who do I run to in times of trouble?

I can't run to the same people that are either the evil doers or are in cahoots with them. 

God forbid a child is told the truth. 

The next time I see a policeman, I'd be sure to... 

I don't know what I would do but I will make sure to not lie to my kids and prepare them for the world, as it is.