Because you’re paid to enforce unnecessary laws

You went into this line of work because you wanted to protect people.

Sometimes you do prevent violence.

Most of the time, however, you spend enforcing unnecessary laws.

You clear teenagers out of a park where they’re innocently spending an evening getting to know each other.

You give someone a ticket for not wearing a helmet while cycling on a path far from dangerous traffic.

You punish a party quietly enjoying a drink on a deserted beach by emptying their beer into the sand.

You arrest people for enjoying a puff of marijuana while looking out over the mountains.

This is not what you signed up for.