Easily more influential. Broader scope, that’s for sure, and in a strong position to either amplify or counteract the typical “cop bullshit”, depending on their choices.

ETA: don’t think many of them work very hard at the “counteracting” side. To put it mildly.

I guess you consider court clerks cops, too. And the reception workers. And the maintenance workers, right?

Lawyers are not cops. Lawyers have their own issues, but different from cops and not at all the same thing lmao