ACAB means all cops, this includes Dorner or whoever your favorite whistleblower is. Filing a report doesn't stop abuses and we shouldn't give cops props for filing paperwork and getting fired. Come talk to me about 'good cops' when we get a story about a cop shooting their own partner to get them to stop, or something, until then, ACAB
E- btw I'm legit disappointed we have a Dorner emoji, I know we are all irony poisoned but wtf
Unironically. It's cool that there's less LAPD officers in the world now but he's still a cop with a warped sense of justice
I mean if they get fired they're no longer cops and therefore no longer bastards.
Does that undo the abuse they were responsible for, or saw and did nothing to stop it? Because that's why we call them bastards, the complicity. Also being fired implies if it was up to them they'd still be on the force
I hated the kind of post I kept seeing like "actually they aren't all personally bad, it just means they uphold a bastardized system" No, they are all personally bastards for enforcing these laws, especially whatever bastard cop you're related to
It's hard to say what the dividing line is, but there are some aspiring cops who figure out the game during training or the first few years, and decide they don't want it for themselves as a career. Those are the good ones, but as a fraction of police departments they're extremely rare by definition.
Could just say that some people are good enough to want to stop being bastards.
Being a bastard isn't applying to a job you have maybe gravitated to or been steered to by culture or those close to you.
Being a bastard is when you realize that your job does more harm than good to other people, is an utter cancer on public budgets, has a disturbingly large fraction of people who abuse their power on and off the job... and then choosing to continue on with it, to wrap your identity around it, and to try to defend the institution at the expense of everyone else in the country.
When the protests sprang up, there was a mass exodus of good cops that left.
A lot of them really should have realized sooner, but better late than never.
Good cops quit their job. Good cops quit their job. Good cops quit their job.
Good cops also get fired/death threats/killed for trying to expose corruption.
if a cop kills another cop for being a cop it balances out to ph neutral, dorner killed 4 cops which makes him 3 times better than the average person that has killed 0 cops. It's simple math y'all.
"I don't make the laws, I just enforce them" is only ever used to justify oppression.
I don't make the laws, I just enthusiastically enforce them with state-sanctioned violence.
This also applies to soldiers as well. I have a vet coworker. He’s a good person, but still a bastard
if there is a good person who happens to be a cop, then they are at the wrong job
Dorner was just trying to "get his name cleared" so he could be a cop again. Sure he killed pigs, but honetly if the LAPD weren't so racist he'd probably still be there, ticketing the poor and trashing the tent of the houseless just like the rest of them.
