Ordinary Cuban cops are not cruel to ordinary Cubans. They seriously work to serve and protect the public. That Cuba protects people from becoming desperately poor helps prevent the sort of crime that people want cops to help stop.

I post a link to that article reluctantly, because it symbolically endorses racial bias by contrasting "white" and "Black". I disapprove of this just as I would disapprove of as contrasting "White" and "black". Ultimately I decided to post a link to this article despite that because it makes an important point that I didn't have another article to use for. (Don't suggest searching; that takes me a lot of time.)

Cuba also has secret police that repress, even kill dissidents; for instance, they killed Oswaldo Payá. Cuba disrespects some vital human rights. But that is a separate issue from its policing of nonpolitical crime.