re: #23 Charmingly Persistent

I am an ACAB person. They need good leadership and accountability to go with all that power and they get the exact opposite. I suppose there are few saints who don’t get corrupted, but they are statistically insignificant. There are also a few places that properly manage their police departments, but again, too few to affect the general ACAB reality.

Just today I have read about police driving a completely innocent guy to attempt suicide by lying to him that his father was dead and they killed his dog. And another cop killed a 13 pound deaf and blind dog.

In both cases the cops suffered no consequences. This system is horrifying.

Note that the guy in the first story is white and owns a house. White people should not be deluded that they are safe just because it is much worse for POCs. No one is safe.

I am not nor will ever be an ACAB person. There are something like a million law enforcement officers in the country who have tens if not hundreds of millions of interactions with people every year. You could read a story like this every day or multiple times a day and it is still not a significant portion of the group.

I have no problem with calling for more accountability and critisizing a system that lets bad actors get away with it, and I wish only the worst for the actual bastards. But what other group would you say that about. How about teachers? I bet I could set up a google alert and see multiple stories a day about teachers abusing, molesting, or otherwise mistreating children. Doesn’t mean all teachers are bastards, even when the union makes sure they don’t lose their job, or the school tries to hide it to protect themselves from lawsuits.