Audrey Farrell, Crime Class & Corruption: The politics of the police. London: Bookmarks, March 1993. Page 82:
It is only in times of rising class struggle that the need to buy off the police is absolutely obvious. So it is ironic that police forces do best in terms of wages and conditions when workers are fighting back. The police can gain from the struggles of the very workers who they are sent to bludgeon.
