To illustrate my point, take for example this comment you made:
"By we I mean, well, the police, maybe us the civilized people, the victims of those horrible acts that wronged them etc?"
Who are "the civilized people"? Throughout history it's often been those who regard themselves as "civilized" and others as "uncivilized" who commit the most savage acts of all, convinced of their own righteousness. The British Empire, the Nazis, the Romans, the United States, the Japanese Empire, the Spanish and Portuguese colonialists, and so on. What makes you "civilized" and others not? This is what I mean. Frankly it could very well be the inverse.
As for the police, there are reasons why some people (primarily middle-class white people) identify the police as the "good guys" but others may not see them the same way. For example, take the fact that a black man is murdered by a cop every 28 hours on average in the United States, the vast majority unarmed and defenseless, shot in the street for some arbitrary reason. Police are people like anyone else, shaped by their environments, and their role in enforcing a power structure over other people makes them the agents of that power structure's prejudices and injustices. Cops are often corrupt, brutal, racist, historically have often been a prime base of support for fascism and apartheid in various countries (and of course then serve as the enforcers of such), and so on. So, you can't just say "the police" are "the good guys" who are going to help wipe out "the bad guys". To many, the police are the most violent of the "violent thugs" you speak of. Police reflect a ruling social system, which may often be unjust, and they will then reflect that injustice.
"The good guy" to one person may well be "the bad guy" to someone else who has a different experience with the same person, due to a different position on the social ladder.
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