Why do people say ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards)?

[Defenestration]

If being a cop is inherently a corrupt position, what alternative solution is there to do? Not have cops and let the streets turn to unnecessary chaos? There are indeed corrupt cops out there but to say that ALL of them are corrupt?

[MILF & Cookies]

Certain bad actors who live criminal/outlaw life styles that constantly put them at odds with the law tend to not like the people who are showing up to potentially place them in hand cuffs.

[Dialectical Femboism]

Because they are. Fun fact, police precincts hire the dumbest people they can find, because dumb people make good suggestive authority figures. They won't question the system.

[Vince ✟]

It's all rabble rabble until you need them.

[Mr. Malum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2WWftDV1oo

[Dialectical Femboism]

Publicado originalmente por MD:

It's all rabble rabble until you need them.

Why would I want to call the people who would mistake my dog for a criminal and then arrest me for "assaulting the police" after they shoot them.

[Siluva]

Because overgeneralization, usually from people who will lecture you about not doing overgeneralization when you point out that a certain cast of people are over represented in certain statistics

[Puggly the Grey]

Mainly cause in the U.S., we let sleazy private companies handle our police trainin’ stuff, and deh do a really bad job at it, so our police often end up bein’ corrupt, paranoid, and incompetent.

Dis leads to many unnecessary perishin’s, like dat lady what had water on her stove, she called le police cause someone was tryin’ to break into her house, and le police jus showed up and ended her life rather den savin’ it.

[Hobbit XIII]

I'll say this for US cops.

Everyday, every traffic stop, that could be their last.

If they make a mistake genuinely, having someone in the car shouting and picking a fight is not going to help anybody.
Because so many times they stop someone who is a threat to others and that person will do whatever they can to put the police in danger.

Imagine getting out your car to let somebody know their brake light failed and just to let them know.
the reaction is someone shouting at them waving their arms about they may have a weapon they will draw they may put the foot down and speed off hitting someone or vehicle.

Do that 50 times and see how chirpy you are.

[Eskimofo]

The only people that say that are criminals. Most cops are good. There are over 100,000 arrests made each year, less than 1% of those result in police misconduct.

Yeah. It's an individual issue, not an organizational issue. The people that say that don;t have jobs and just want to feel important by being mad at something.

[ナルゴ]

Generalizations + discrimination based on profession is only a thing on reddit. Normal people know that:

Publicado originalmente por Eskimofo:

Most cops are good. There are over 100,000 arrests made each year, less than 1% of those result in police

[Altimely]

Publicado originalmente por Defenestration:

If being a cop is inherently a corrupt position, what alternative solution is there to do? Not have cops and let the streets turn to unnecessary chaos?

Think about what you wrote.

"Some of my appliances keep tripping the breaker. What is the alternative solution? Turning off the breaker completely and live without electricity?"

Fix the problem at it's core. Require more training to become a cop. Require stricter screenings to weed out people with a history of spousal abuse. Introduce social workers that work with local law enforcement to deescalate situations.

Reform the police, not defund the police.

[GLOTCH]

my grampappy wiz a polic oficer

[Daenoxiis]

The police are not inherently corrupt, but it IS an inherently high stress career and job.
We can't fault them for dropping the ball sometimes, nobody is perfect, no system is perfect.

The problem is that the fallacy of human errors does not mix well with the fallacy of human fears.

The public at large generally do not understand the complex depths of legal rhetoric.
And people ARE inherently afraid of what they do not understand.

It's, a cocktail for disaster that is unfortunately made by miscommunication and happenstances.

[Heatblizzard]

Publicado originalmente por Defenestration:

If being a cop is inherently a corrupt position, what alternative solution is there to do? Not have cops and let the streets turn to unnecessary chaos? There are indeed corrupt cops out there but to say that ALL of them are corrupt?

Because they have little to no understanding of actual police work. Same as the police officers that actually are bastards and each department has their own policies that may or may not share their neighbors though many now share a common radio frequency (TRUNK).

They won't survive their job long and wind up in private security as soon as they have their first life threatening incident they can't handle leaving room for more experienced officers to fill in the blanks. The best officers know when to deescalate things and when to protect a life (not necessarily their own) The people they encounter almost all high on something shows why the restraint chair is a necessity for short term timeout.

Most drug addicts sadly can barely pull their pants up let alone be behind the wheel.

[Altimely]

Publicado originalmente por Nargo:

Generalizations + discrimination based on profession is only a thing on reddit.

A. We're on a forum (that isn't reddit). where users makes sweeping generalizations daily
B. You're guilty of it yourself as per your post history, so I guess you're reddit.

Publicado originalmente por Eskimofo:

The only people that say that are criminals.

Hm, I'm not a criminal. ACAB. Proves that wrong.

most cops are good

Not if they know about, hide, and defend corrupt cops. The complete saying is "a few bad apples spoils the bunch". That 1% misconduct is the 1% that is caught. The rise of cell phones at least lets bystanders catch cops slipping drugs into people's pockets. I wonder why so many body-cams happen to turn off at key moments 🤔.