Late Stage Capitalism

It's the same universe.

Just think of a stereotypical police slogan, "to serve and protect." It's incomplete, it's missing "capital." In capitalist nations, so all of the west, the police exist to serve and protect capital. So of course they're at the beck and call of corporations and wealthy people.

In fact police don't even need cause in some countries (in the example I used before, a company owns the IP but not the physical object). In the US for example, police can use a mechanism called civil asset forfeiture to just take your stuff. That you legally own. Just because they want to. And you can do nothing about it.