cops (in the us especially) are for keeping the people in line and working hard, sothat they don’t overthrow the government and implement socialism
Classical US defaultism
Related to what you said. But I love when British and European people say “oh, sucks how your cops are so racist”. When theirs are. Lol
It’s actually hard to become a policeman here. First you have to pass some tests to even get accepted to police school, then you have the basic training consisting of 19 months theoretical and 5 months practical training. Only after passing all the tests there, you can start as a low level policeman, requiring both more training and experience to progress.
Random people who just want to get into a position of power don’t pass.
The difference is in volume
How many cops does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They just beat the shit out of the room.
… for being black. If the room wasn’t busy being all black in an otherwise well-lit house then none of it would have happened.
It’s a nice, well-lit, Christian home. Honestly, that urban room was making the rest of the house uncomfortable.
Knew I missed a part. D’oh!
There are good cops?
Yeah sure. Unless you’re in a cult, you know not everything is b&w.
I know that’s probably tongue in cheek but I wouldn’t be surprised if some people take acab literally.
It’s just the default stance. Kind of like assuming everyone on the road is a bad driver and driving defensively as a result. It’s safer to assume every cop you interact with is actively looking for a way to screw you over, will lie to you and will violate your rights given the opportunity. Even if it’s just most, or hell even rare that cops are bastards it only takes one interaction with one to have life altering consequences.
That way you can defend your rights and be pleasantly surprised on the rare opportunity you encounter one who isn’t a bastard, rather than be constantly disappointed (and possibly in jail or dead).
I wouldn’t be surprised if some people take acab literally.
A ton of people do. Like it’s a common viewpoint. Especially on platforms like this.
People love to ignore shades of gray.
I don’t know it was used in the George Floyd protest because of how most cops are being complicit by not speaking out against rotten colleagues but I think those movements recognize that it’s meant as an anti-establishment slur.
Or just go full “one person was a bad person. Therefore all of this group are bad” Then later “not all imigrants are bad just because one did a bad thing!”
The double standard is so funny and sad to me
It’s 13:12
There was that one cop in…cali? That started actually hunting other cops when he realized shit was bad. He didn’t change anything, but he might be the only good cop.
Pretty sure you refer to this case Christopher Dorner
Main thing I ever remember about that case was that some cops randomly filled a vehicle with holes and harmed some people.
Massive overreaction.
Fuck the police.
It gets better. The cops didn’t receive any punishment because the judge said the cops were scared and that it was OK for them to shoot up the car that didn’t match the description (Blue truck versus white / grey, different manufacturer) and contained people who didn’t match the description (Asian women versus black man).
It gets even BETTERER though. That wasn’t the only vehicle they stopped that blatantly didn’t match the description and they still used violence to stop.
Are you talking about the bay harbor butcher
No idea, maybe. The extent of my knowledge is a half remember weird news segment on a radio show. I do remember he got the other pigs do riled up they’d attack random people (more often).
He worked for the cops, but wasn’t really one. Also he was based in Miami. Don’t remember him killing many cops.
Serpico
