After arriving at the Murry family home, police instructed everyone inside to come out with their hands up. Nakala Murry says that’s when Aderrien emerged from around a corner, running toward the door. Capers then opened fire.
After arriving at the Murry family home, police instructed everyone inside to come out with their hands up. Nakala Murry says that’s when Aderrien emerged from around a corner, running toward the door. Capers then opened fire.
ACAB is a dumb overspimplification of a complex issue and does not help the cause of social justice.
Anyone who uses the phrase seriously is IMO not to be taken so
Ok, this is a good test. Show me the good cops in this situation who are fighting for this family. Doing what they can to out the pieces of shit who stroke their cocks to dead children.
IF there is a single good cop at this station they would be working to end this, right?
Or are at least publicly speaking out against it, right?
at least one saying ‘yo fuck that guy’
ACAB is pretty simple to understand.
1 in 20 candies in a bowl contain a lethal amount of poison. 19 in 20 are fine. You can’t tell the difference unless you eat one, and by then it’s too late.
Go ahead and eat one. Not every candy is poisoned, most aren’t. Most candies are safe. The odds are in your favor, what are you worried about?
Or does a 5% chance of a candy being poisoned motivate you to treat the entire bowl as being poisoned?
Same with cops. One bad apple spoils the bunch. ACAB.
This except 19 are poisoned 1 is fine, and that one fine one could snitch on the others but then the 19 would murder it so it stays silent
Eh, it isn’t an over simplification unless you haven’t bothered to look into the origins of the initialism and the ideas behind it.
The entire point of ACAB as a movement is that it’s a systemic problem, and until that system changes, every officer is part of the problem, even if they as individuals are “good” cops.
And, having family that are cops, and being friends with the sheriff of my county, I agree with that principle, and have argued it with those people. I know plenty of officers that genuinely want to serve their community and help people. But the system they’re in is still horrible, and unable to be fixed from within unless there’s a top down change.
Even the sheriff here, and again, he’s a friend, isn’t top enough to make lasting change. At best, he can enforce better policies while in office. And he does. Not everything I’ve tried to talk him into, but part of that is being obligated to deal with local government and police union.
So, yeah, the movement behind the letters is absolutely, perfectly summed up by those letters, and using them makes perfect sense, even when whoever is using them isn’t aware of all of that and is just bashing cops. It allows opportunities like this.
Don’t be a dismissive prick. Take opportunities to open a dialogue and make change by doing so.
Thanks for your perspective. Would a tiny little insular department be just as much part of the larger system as any another? Maybe compared to a department say pulling over out-of-state motorists all day.
Glad I’m reading this, since yesterday I shared:
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To quote you now:
Policing has systemic problems and every officer is part a problematic system. Some officers who are part of the problematic system are not themselves part of the problem. I don’t know the numbers – I could be referring to 10 or 12 cops.
To drive this point home, imagine elder care devolves to the point where 100% of caretakers are abusive to their patients. All caretakers would be part of the problem. If one caretaker quits in as replaced by a non-abusive provider, they would be part of a disgracefully problematic system. Given their behavior is not problematic, they would not themselves be a part of the problem.
If 51% of caretakers are abusive, are 49% of caretakers part of the problem?
If 49% of caretakers are abusive, or 1% of caretakers are abusive, are the remainder part of the problem?
If a trans Lemming in Unix socks sees cops kill trans people and wants to take on the impossible challenge of reforming a department from the inside, I don’t know why I’d try to discourage them. “Noo you’re only allowed to vote, protest, and run as a politician, no ground level actions!” I want trans people on the force. PEB, but trans Lemming cops aren’t necessarily bastards. And if their chief takes 30 days to fire them, “ACAB” insults them unnecessarily during that. Besides opportunity cost, the more good people are stuffed into an evil system, the better… provided they won’t think twice before committing terminable offenses (whistleblowing, disregarding immoral orders).
Thanks for entertaining my verbose, overly literal exploration.
Well, sometimes the smaller departments are worse. You run into places where the cops are a literal organized crime faction.
But, yeah, when the system is geared towards incarceration for control of the populace, with racist roots and power grabbing people throughout, even a small department is part of the problem.
Our county? Like I said, the sheriff really does his best to weed out the racists and assholes, but he’s an elected official, and some shit is deeply entrenched. He loses an election, and we’re subject to whatever gets in.
Conveniently enough, I used to be a nurse’s assistant, so the analogy about nursing homes is close to home. And it is another field where the problems of the industry taint even the best caregivers sometimes. It’s only because most caregivers are genuinely trying their best that it isn’t as bad as the policing problems.
But you really, really don’t want to see what happens in most nursing homes. The profit driven ones are worse than the charitable ones, but there’s problems rooted in the capitalist dominance of the medical industry. When you’re paying bare minimum for caregivers, abuse, theft, and even worse things can creep in because the keep things staffed, it’s often the worst ones that stick with the job.
And! When someone stands the fuck up about abuse, they’re the ones that get attacked, fired, or otherwise driven away. There’s multiple reasons I stopped working in nursing homes, but being unable to stop abuse, even when going to state oversight divisions, was one of them. You make reports, and you end up mysteriously off schedule. You stop someone directly, and you’re on report. It’s crazy.
But, unlike cops, the victims of elder abuse in facilities rarely have anyone advocating for them, so the problem isn’t as well known
But, after that experience? Yeah, even the good ones are part of the problem because the system prevents them from making change so the good ones never last long. It isn’t as bad as the police problem, but nobody escapes without some taint on them, some compromise made to their ethics.
You raise a great point though. It is possible for good people to become cops (or caregivers) with the goal of changing from the inside. But they won’t be allowed to they’ll get run out, or killed
You sound like the next thing out of your mouth will be, “If you just follow instructions, you have nothing to fear.”
Fuck that.
I don’t think so, my understanding of it is that even if one individual cop is a ‘good one’ they still work for a broken system and help in some form whatever insanity has led to the people who are meant to protect and serve, instead, routinely shooting unarmed civilians. In the case of this article - a child.
I don’t think it helps to think of cops as individuals when it’s the collective that’s broken. So in this case the simplification is kind of the point.
Your commenting on an extremist community where logic doesn’t actually matter anymore.
This is a community that started from pointing out serious problems and talking about how they might be solved, to not actually caring about how to solve the problems and just hating and being polarized.
You are 100% correct because using this term is not going to help figure out realistic ways to solve the problem. It’s just going to do what fringe groups do, and make actual solutions impossible to start with. Thus perpetuating the problems the fringe group hates, it’s their identity, they can’t go without it.
Not only does it prevent solutions but it actually pushes out allies and others who are also passionate about the problem because “they aren’t extreme enough”. (This is me, I despise this problem and want to support anything I can that aims for actual solutions)
I look forward to all the hate spam, downvotes, and the comments. Which would be no different than if I actually commented on a Nazi community pointing out hypocrisy.
If y’all want to actually solve this problem then extreme, generalized, non-logical, blind-hate, stances aren’t going to do it. You’re literally becoming a sibling of neo-nazis with this, and you’re weakening your own position, and alienating your support, by being extremists about it.
100% agree