What are they doing?
Collecting a pay check!
Remember - according to a Supreme Court ruling uniformed police officers have no legal requirement to protect individual citizens. This includes even citizens that have a restraining order against a man who eventually kills the woman who filed for the order.
If need law enforcement help always request the Sherriff Department. They may be later but they still have a legal requirement to protect and serve the private citizen.
Yes. And inflating the civil servant/locked-in voter rolls too.