Yep, they're agents of capital.

This is why the "1%" rhetoric from Berniecrats and soc dems is a bit misleading. It's not just 1% of the population heavily invested in protecting capital and perpetuating the capitalist system, it's closer to something like 30-40% when you include all the petty bourgies (small business owners, landlords), the agents of capital (cops, feds, organized crime, military, upper management, media class) & brainwashed class traitors (militias, lumpen, reactionary proles).

If there ever is a communist revolution in the US, there's going to be WAY more reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries than 1% of the population (which is still 3.5 million people by the way). Anyone who doesn't think we'll need gulags is kidding themselves.