A sergeant with the City University of New York's Department of Public Safety told pro-Palestinian protestors he supports "killing all you guys" during a graduation ceremony.
There are a lot of good cops. ACAB is about pointing out that they all might as well be bastards because enough of them are that people don’t feel safe around them.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have police. We need much harsher penalties for misconduct, external investigations into misconduct, and better training to avoid misconduct in the first place.
The problem with the ‘good cop’ is that they’re either too incompetent to know who the ‘bad cops’ are, or they know and they do nothing about them, or there are too few of them to do anything about the overwhelming number of ‘bad cops’ (the real answer). But in any of these cases there obviously aren’t ‘a lot’ of good cops.
I do feel for the few that exist, but police abuses have been institutionalized so even a ‘good cop’ is working against bad policies and will eventually fall in line with those policies or not be a cop for long.
I agree, getting rid of them all is starting to seem like a good idea.
And by all, I mean the perversely scummy government officials not the Palestinians getting murdered by said scummy government officials.
There are a lot of good cops. ACAB is about pointing out that they all might as well be bastards because enough of them are that people don’t feel safe around them.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have police. We need much harsher penalties for misconduct, external investigations into misconduct, and better training to avoid misconduct in the first place.
Good cops either quit, turn apathetic, or get murdered by the bad cops. One bad apple ruins the whole bunch.
The problem with the ‘good cop’ is that they’re either too incompetent to know who the ‘bad cops’ are, or they know and they do nothing about them, or there are too few of them to do anything about the overwhelming number of ‘bad cops’ (the real answer). But in any of these cases there obviously aren’t ‘a lot’ of good cops.
I do feel for the few that exist, but police abuses have been institutionalized so even a ‘good cop’ is working against bad policies and will eventually fall in line with those policies or not be a cop for long.
A logical, respectful arguement that got downvoted because it wasn’t “cop bad”.