Officers perform mandated duties without human empathy toward detainees

Evidence

The only reason she’d made the call was because it was her duty, Rasha thought, because her job told her she had to do something. It was not out of any feeling for Reem’s suffering. Not because she, too, was a human being. Beasts acting like gods. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 115

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The ‘beasts acting like gods’ inversion — duty without feeling, institutional power stripped of humanity — is a dense compression of how carceral systems dehumanize both sides that resists paraphrase.
• ADDENDUM: Parallels the ‘On Sacrifice’ theme: institutions of power (here the state via prison) extracting submission while performing only the merest procedural ‘sacrifice’ of attention — the officer does her duty but gives nothing of herself.