not just cops, but the rent-a-cops/private security which was where Syril got started. he was a completely devoted cop-wannabe that was too dim and ineffective to even make it into imperial security.

he got completely bent out of shape by his two fellow "corporate security" rent-a-cops getting popped while doing the dirt and was so upset that the institution didn't want to investigate, that he went over his superior's head (Chief Hynes) after being told to let it go.

"They were killed in a fight. Outside of a brothel, which we're not supposed to have. The expensive one, which they're not supposed to be able to afford. Drinking Revnog, which we're not supposed to allow."

so he calls it in anyway to get a rapid response team of gungho door kickers on the case, which of course costs a bunch of money and leads to nothing but the corporation losing the contract, just like the boss said it would, and Syril gets shit canned from his mall cop shift supervisor job that he had his uniform tailored for. so he moves back in with his mom and broods about how troublemakers go unpunished.

personally, i loved how they portrayed him as instrumental to the fascist machine. a completely unlikable and dimwitted asshole who worships rules and procedures for security and social order. he was like supervisor meero, except zero guile or cunning. meero, by contrast, was fucking terrifying and i loved how she ended up getting hers. absolutely poetic, since she was the one that perfected the prison work process to get promoted into ISB.

anybody who comes away from this sympathetic to syril should be isolated and studied in a lab.

reminds me of that quote "It Is No Measure of Health To Be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society", i doubt the hog can properly abstract what "good men" and "bad society" is; his definition of good men is probably rigid and subscribes to harmful patriarchal themes.

His character introduction is being the sort of loser that tailors his corpo slop security uniform and argues with his superiors about following the rules (on the side of rules).

We get to know him as an incompetent cop and he only gets worse, yea. The only thing that Drinker is correct about there is that the Empire obviously does not give a fuck about the little cogs in it's machine.

The point is he stands for something, larping as a cop gives his life meaning, and he does think he's doing the right thing. The point about his final realization was just entirely spot on. He literally walks away from the empire and his evil girlfriend after telling her shits fucked like ten seconds before he dies. You get to see how he could have been a good person.