personally i for one agree with the take that they are working class, but class traitors

relationship to labor

they do not own the means of production, they perform labor for a wage, that wage is their sustenance

they are as much a wage slave as the next, the only difference is that their task is enforcing wage slavery and private property relations on the rest of us, which they do with glee

there is, in no part of this, an absolution of the moral harm cops do compared to other workers. you know, because they're traitors to their class, having sold out themselves, their families and their children for the owners' money

p.s. like what would you even want to call them instead? they're not petty bourgeois because they don't own any capital. They're just goons