I need context
The context is all cops are bastards. Fuck cops, they are all part of a corrupt system of violence to protect capital.
Strictly speaking, this image is grayscale, not black and white.
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I’m on the “it’s all until it’s regular practice for cops to arrest their peers and leaders for breaking laws” side. Like, yeah, there are probably some who want to “change the system” or are “just keeping their head down and providing for their community” which are both noble aspirations… but they need full scale follow through or it’s just copwashing.
I don’t like lumping in the individual with the group. I hate blanket statements. All they do is enforce the „us vs them“ mentality that, in my opinion, is a big part of the problem in the first place.
But I also have the privilege of living in a country with a fairly well trained and regulated police force (Germany). I know it’s not perfect but it’s also not terrible.
Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.I’m not a fan of lumping either, but it is literally in their job that they should be holding their peers accountable the same as every other person. They don’t, so even if they’re the individual cop doing it for the right reasons, they still have a burden of duty that they are shirking. Thus, in the lump they go.
Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.
Most individual cops I’ve met have been the most abrasive egotistical assholes in any room I met them in. The one that I knew was in a relationship really lent credence to the 40% of American cops self report committing domestic violence.
I can’t determine if the picture being various shades of gray was intentional or not.
The way I’ve argued it is that not all people who work as police are bastards. Some may be good people outside of work. The moment they put on that badge and willfully become part of an oppressive system, they are bastards.
Yeah. It’s got holes-a-plenty, but it brings people into the conversation without throwing a totally blanket statement.
Not speaking up or pushing against policies and such that target specific groups of people because that’s the way we’ve always done it makes you a bastard still. We all know there’s probably one or two good cops per department/precinct that truly wish and do help people when they can. But they’re silenced for the sake of their job speaking out against the mistreatments and policies.
How ACAB works (for nerds):
private abstract class Bastard {} private interface DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {} private class Cop extends Bastard implements DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}file transfer protocol.
I think it is more so anyone who can stay a cop because they push all the good people out and attract the bastards
Some people join trying to make things better but I cannot imagine anyone staying in it for that
Where is that video of the Chinese cop tearing milk company managers a new one for calling the police in response to workers staging a sit in as part of a labor dispute?
