- Told family that person in custody died in a car crash
- Officer tells media that person in custody was brutally beaten to death and it was on camera
- They serve Google a warrant to find out who it was
- Fire whistleblower
- Offer whistleblower $200k to go silent and he refuses
- Whistleblower still wants system fixed
This is it. This is the mystical “good cop”. And that’s how the rest of the pigs treat them.
ACAB
It’s what happens, every time.
Now now, dont be reductive. Sometimes they straight up execute them in a “training accident” instead
Yeah, I stand corrected, thanks.
Why is the whistleblower a bastard?
He’s not, that’s why he’s not a cop anymore
But he was a bastard until the day he was sacked?
ACAB means that all cops are bastards. And if one isn’t a bastard yet, they will become a bastard or be kicked out/killed by the bastards.
It doesn’t mean cops can’t do good things or that a good person can’t become a cop. It just means all cops inherently and inevitably participate in a broken system and those that try to fix it will end up being targeted.
We can have a nuanced take while saying ACAB.
The Choirboys is a drop in the bucket.
We can have a nuanced take while saying ACAB.
It’s a phrase that explicitly denies any possibility of a nuanced take, or any possibility of reform or anyone good attempting to change the system from the inside. It indiscriminately labels everyone who takes a job to enforce laws globally. It’s crass and I hate it. And no, I’m not a cop
It also says you can’t change the system from inside. This article is about that. I think that’s proven by themselves.
I see it explicitly as a call to reform. If all cops are bastards, the only way to not have bastards as cops is reform. And if the reform works, the phrase dies.
I agree it’s a combative phrase, but that’s part of the point. It’s a call to action
Sorry, would “99.9% of cops are bastards and because of reactions like this the tiny fraction that aren’t are entirely irrelevant” be better? It’s a bit of a mouthful.
ACAB
Yes it would be better, because it would at least require people to think. But hey, if nuance gets in the way of a good slogan, we should jettison it in favour of simplicity.
They mean the same thing honey. The tiny portion that are “good cops” are unfortunately 100% irrelevant because of shit like this. If they’re not able to actually cause change, which they are not, whether or not they exist doesn’t matter because they may as well not.
You’re being intentionally dense. You know it. I know it. Everybody here knows it.
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Police are a fantastic source of visible small-scale implementations of regulatory capture. It’d be an exciting revelation if it weren’t quite so horrifying. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
