The purpose of policing

In Sophie Yanow’s War of Streets and Houses, police are a constant threat to the student protesters. This topic asks you to make an argument about the role of policing in contemporary cities and protest movements by analysing the relationship between protesters and police in Yanow’s graphic novel. How are the effects of policing felt unevenly by different characters in the text? Having read Yanow’s novel, do you agree that the purpose of policing “is no longer the differentiation between ‘good/contained’ and ‘bad/transgressive’ protesters, but the incapacitation of demonstrations through the creation of a climate of fear” (Léger and Sorochan 90)?