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Not the local police.
Not even the main Spanish police (the policía nacional).
The fucking guardia civil.
The military (despite the name) police inherited from Franco's dictatorship and somehow never disbanded.
The ones who attempted a coup back in '81 to bring back the dictatorship.
These ain't your regular local variety pigs.
There's absolutely no reason for them to have been called for a noise complaint.
Something stinks here, even more than the pigs themselves, even if they belong to a particularly stinky breed.
O_o
To people not versed in Spanish law enforcement that might seem like an unhinged rant, but it's not far off.
Is there large public demand to disband them?
Only when they've done something naughty (like beating up elderly people trying to vote) and even then it soon fades, but they're unpopular enough in left leaning areas that in Catalunya there's an entire other militarized police force to do their job instead.