Va. police investigate after pig mask, 'I Can't Breathe' shirt found in police car

You defend the upper class’s enforcers when you give leniency to any. Even “good” cops follow the law, which is weaponized against specific (see: racist) demographics and lower-class citizens.

To defend any police officer is to perpetuate the well-designed system of oppression. A true good cop would quickly find themselves on the wrong side of history, and resign, as some in the past have done.

It's not. I am a red blooded American and see too many officers not held accountable for their crimes. You're just a bootlicker trying to get sympathy for people that aren't sympathetic.

ACAB, no exceptions, especially not former chops who still argue for them

I'll explain for you in case you're not trolling. We must All Cops Are Bastards because enough of them are and there is little enough oversight that when some of them do something wrong they get away with it far too often. It is therefore self defence to never trust a cop because they can fuck your life up six ways to Sunday and suffer no repercussions of note. ACAB does not mean there are no good cops, it means we must assume any given cop is a bad cop because one false negative has the potential to go so far wrong.

Your even spicier take is actually just bonkers. It's not a uniquely US thing, no, but it is not designed to do anything but protect us the non-cops!

Because most people who are cops are attracted to that role because of the power over others it gives them; as well as the frequently sycophantic level of respect and admiration.

“Oh no, we like saving people” doesn’t really fly since you could also be an EMT or Firefighter or doctor, social worker. This is even more true in places with higher academic requirements.

That the cops around you know the law and abide it better than here is irrelevant.

When people follow the trend of protesting against police training centers and police officers in general it harms public safety,

If you’re gonna comment about something, you should probably look at why they’re protesting that something.

Specifically 2 things. The first is that the local residents aren’t getting a say in if that training center gets to be out there or not- they live outside Atlanta, technically, so they have no representation with the city.

They’re unhappy because the land is currently a green space park that will be plowed over to create an urban/suburban concrete hellhole.

Then other thing is what that hellhole will be used for: simulating lethal force being used on citizens. Most probably citizens that look a lot like they do.

Cops need more training. There’s no question there. They don’t need more combat training.

The sentiment espoused in ‘ACAB’ comes from people who have never met a “good” cop, but having met an awful lot of “meh” cops trying to gig them on whatever they can and a fair number of bad cops who are actively looking for a reason to shoot them.

I’d never say ACAB, mostly because I haven’t met every cop.

Where I live the police are well educated and well trained.

You answered your own question right there.

It's like this... you know when you hear about some cop that has a history of violence that somehow escapes punishment right up until they kill someone? You know... like happens with alarming regularity?

In every circumstance there were DOZENS of officers that kept quiet. There were DOZENS of people that refused to say anything, that would go as far as lying in open court about activities, in order to protect a fucking coworker.

THAT is why all cops are bastards. They value being a cop and protecting cops more than they value PROTECTING AND SERVING THE PEOPLE THEY ARE BEING FUCKING PAID TO PROTECT AND SERVE.

They are a gang. Every force, everywhere, no exceptions.

Here's a better idea than throwing millions upon billions at a bunch of sociopathic cunts that don't care about anything but themselves... fire all of them and start paying social workers what they're actually worth. Instead of an armed police force you have people that live within a given community that are trained in deescalation, that know how to handle people with mental health issues, that are FAR better at handling high stress situations than any cop ever has because social work is uncaring, unforgiving, underpaid shit work that you only do if you actually want to help people and that needs to fucking change.

Defund the pigs and give their money to actual professionals.

I think Robert Higgs explained it best:

"The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone's anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.
We need only consider the following:

• A cop's job is to enforce the laws, all of them;
• Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;
• Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.

There are no good cops."

Would it be fair to say that you are representative of the majority demographics in your area, or even the majority of the most local powerful demographic?

The reason I ask is because I often find that the people who are confused/surprised by protests like these are not typically from members of groups who experience over-representation in the criminal justice system. As in, the people who are less likely to experience the problem first or even second hand are more surprised when the problem is finally highlighted for them through novel methods.

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You are getting nothing but angry pushback, so I am here to let you know that at least one lemmite agrees with you.

I don't know if ACAB is a disinformation campaign by Russia and China, but I do know they have been stoking the division here in many ways on social media, so I feel you are not "fringe/crazy" for wondering if it is true.

I know a few police and fire responders, who are Latino and are stand up individuals. They are not racist.

We must strive to differentiate the fiends from the people who only want to do the right thing and resist the easy trap of generalization.

"He should have just complied."

Biggest IQ cop, right there.

Their big boy pants are too small to fit over their big boy pull-ups.

cop

gets in trouble

Pick one.