We did actually pay up for that, so… Whatever that means for the argument

It’s open here.

Your joke lost steam when you conflated how US police acts towards petty crime or suspects on the monthly with the way good Italians strung up Mussolini.

Yes but in figure 1 it’s a noun modifying another noun. Like police car siren. Police and car aren’t adjectives in that example.

If your friend group is 6 men and 4 women, do you tell people “I’m mostly friends with men”?