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'In December 2014 the discussion of 'police' began to look at the roots of the institution. Peter Gelderloos concluded a three-part study in CounterPunch flatly stating, 'The police are a racist, authoritarian institution that exists to protect the powerful in an unequal system.'[1] Sam Mitrani, a scholar of the Chicago police, concluded similarly, 'The police were not created to protect and serve the population. They were not created to stop crime, at least not as most people understand it.' [2] Yet a physician in Ann Arbor, Catherine Wilkerson, caused a local stir when she stated 'that neither racism nor racist police violence can be abolished under this economic system, i.e. under capitalism.''