Yeah, fuck that noise. The whole idea of policing is that it’s done by consent of the public being policed.

Depending on where you sit on the Anarchy - Authority spectrum, what “policing by consent” ideally looks like is very different, but the one thing the overwhelming majority of those on that spectrum (excluding the extremes on each end) is that civilian policing is not done by the (para)military.

So yeah, cops should not be saluting anyone and media depictions of them shouldn’t be showing that either.