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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by smcl on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:34AM (#21407003)
Precisely. The Police are keen to do little "viral" stunts like shooting hoops with kids or buying shoes for homeless guys (ok, fine things to do) ... but when it really comes down to stuff that actually matters - the countless killings and general misery they cause to minorities - they close ranks and put on a united front, and often have the audacity to play the victim.

This is why "ACAB" takes hold. They 100% get behind their shittiest members, effectively taking collective responsibility for them. I am really not sure what else they expect, really.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eevilspock on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:45AM (#21408627)
> On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.

From I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by concordDance on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:24AM (#21408412)
> general misery they cause to minorities

And also non-minorities. According to Scott Alexander the rate of killings per police encounter in the USA is similar for both black and white people.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by koolba on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:24AM (#21407555)
What’s ACAB?
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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eden_h on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:12AM (#21407839)
"All Cops Are Bastards" - It's to do with all individual police officers, who could be perfectly moral upstanding citizens, being complicit with an institution that has done terrible things.

It's more of a reaction to the idea of changing an institution from the inside.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by appleflaxen on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:47AM (#21407672)
It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards", and is a common graffiti tag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.A.B.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by smcl on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:28AM (#21407579)
It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards"
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