Anarchism

Yeah, no, this is at best, a misrepresentation of both, the anarchists' beliefs, and the police's function.

The idea of anarchy is that NO authority should exist. No legitimacy can ever justify power over your fellow humans' lives, nothing can EVER legitimize a politician's power to harm. And politicians, among other things, have undeniable power to harm.

The function of police, in all real measurements, is to protect ownership. That's all they do.

You said that there are many policemen who are in the force, in order to protect their communities. By all scientific measures, policing fails miserably in every single metric on that. They don't reduce or prevent crime at all. Their only function when not corrupt, is to move in after, and remove the freedom, and later ownership (capital) of the offending party. A process, proven to not reduce crime or protect people, and occasionally shown to aggravate it.

I understand your "Both Sides" argument sounds appealing, and, on some level, in my soul, I deeply wish it was true. Many leftists do.

But unfortunately, I think you don't really understand what either side is really standing for, yet.