A true, historically-accurate Pharaoh would do it publicly to increase crop fertility/yields but this works too

Stopping fights, looking for drugs or weapons, giving kids a head start on a life full of imprisonment; you know, the same safety regulations every sane nation would have 🙄 Growing up with parts of my childhood in the US private and public educational system, it became very clear very quick that the cops didn’t really give a single shit about me or saving my life if something happened. They were there to ‘keep an eye on the troubled, inner-city kids’ i.e. “scare and threaten the minority* kids”

*I say minority but my school was actually pretty diverse, all things considered, though the black kids definitely had a slim majority