If someone wants to dive into ACAB, I’m always happy to explain it to them. ACAB works great as a one liner.
I’ll even explain it to a cop. The key is to have empathy with the person you’re talking to. Individually, cops also have this problem with being bastards and not having power to break the thin blue line. It’s just that their “problem” is that they’re forced to stand by while someone else suffers the real consequences.
If your partner gets slightly annoyed and curb stomps a homeless guy, what do you do about it? Nothing? You gonna try to report it and get ostracized for it? You can lose your job over something like that.
And that “what do you do?” Covers all the way down to: your partner is less"understanding" of certain ethnicity’s car trouble, and cites them (to your eye) more frequently than other ethnicities. It’s hard to prove literal wrongdoing, but you stand by all the same
Edit the standby effect is a core part of the “all cops” part of bastards
Thanks. That might apply to 99% of cops/departments.
Somebody here pushed back a few weeks ago with something like “hey I’m in a mountain town and the two guys on our force, who know every resident, are saints.” I also would assume any given quarter, one out of the 800k police in the US is in the process of being fired for e.g. reporting their partner curb stomping a homeless person.
I don’t want to disrespect even one good cop, whether in a remote department or in the midst of being fired. So, I find a shorter one liner that lets me acknowledge POLICING IS FUCKED w/o worrying about gotchas.
LOL
This is why I prefer “PEB”: “Policing Enables Bastards”
Helps you not be literally incorrect in case there’s a one-person police department in a five-person town in Norway where everything is gravy.
Signed,
Sometimes too literal me
If someone wants to dive into ACAB, I’m always happy to explain it to them. ACAB works great as a one liner.
I’ll even explain it to a cop. The key is to have empathy with the person you’re talking to. Individually, cops also have this problem with being bastards and not having power to break the thin blue line. It’s just that their “problem” is that they’re forced to stand by while someone else suffers the real consequences.
If your partner gets slightly annoyed and curb stomps a homeless guy, what do you do about it? Nothing? You gonna try to report it and get ostracized for it? You can lose your job over something like that.
And that “what do you do?” Covers all the way down to: your partner is less"understanding" of certain ethnicity’s car trouble, and cites them (to your eye) more frequently than other ethnicities. It’s hard to prove literal wrongdoing, but you stand by all the same
Edit the standby effect is a core part of the “all cops” part of bastards
Thanks. That might apply to 99% of cops/departments.
Somebody here pushed back a few weeks ago with something like “hey I’m in a mountain town and the two guys on our force, who know every resident, are saints.” I also would assume any given quarter, one out of the 800k police in the US is in the process of being fired for e.g. reporting their partner curb stomping a homeless person.
I don’t want to disrespect even one good cop, whether in a remote department or in the midst of being fired. So, I find a shorter one liner that lets me acknowledge POLICING IS FUCKED w/o worrying about gotchas.
PEB!