*By "elevating" us as warriors, the elites conspired to reduce us as citizens, detaching us from a citizen’s code of civics and moral behavior. By accepting the conceit of such an identity, we warriors and former warriors became, in a sense, foreign to democracy and ever more divorced from the citizenry. We came to form [51]foreign legions, readily exploitable in America’s endless imperial-corporate wars, whether overseas or now here.*

When veterans become cops, and when they are taught the same spirit, they too can think of the public as "the enemy".