All Cops Are Bastards, a sentiment that arises from the blue code of silence, so that even the well-meaning ones are obligated to lie in court to defend the violent ones, what allowed the loyalty-over-principle sector to rise into power, which is why there is such staunch resistance against publication of disciplinary hearings against police who misbehaved or broke laws, even though such documents are supposed to be public as per FOIA statutes.
When California passed a law reinforcing the notion that such files would be made accessible to the public, the precincts literally shredded or burned their files.
The institutions are corrupt through and through. It was especially evident during the Ferguson unrest, when the blue lines showed they had no trigger discipline for the military hardware they were wielding. It was laughable, except for the danger they were posing to the demonstrators.
Officers who seek to serve their communities quit. Some of them have publicly denounce police services and have become staunch police abolitionists. The only officers that remain are either violent killers, or the ones willing to cover for violent killers.
There are problems with policing that are pretty universal, some of which are acknowledged in Peel’s Principles of Policing way back with the Bow Street Runners. But while those principles are taught to every cadet, here in the states we otherwise ignore them.
There’s absolutely problems with drift, away from participation of the community and toward control, and while I can’t speak for which part of the Americas you’re in (the RCM have enough annual incidents to fall neatly into the ACAB category) I can say there are problems with giving one group of people authority over the rest that we’ve yet to fully solve.
Still, it’s especially bad in the states, and when black US tourists find themselves in conversation with law enforcement in Europe, the extreme level of contrition they sometimes show is an embarrassment to everyone, but a shame of the United States.
All Cops Are Bastards, a sentiment that arises from the blue code of silence, so that even the well-meaning ones are obligated to lie in court to defend the violent ones, what allowed the loyalty-over-principle sector to rise into power, which is why there is such staunch resistance against publication of disciplinary hearings against police who misbehaved or broke laws, even though such documents are supposed to be public as per FOIA statutes.
When California passed a law reinforcing the notion that such files would be made accessible to the public, the precincts literally shredded or burned their files.
The institutions are corrupt through and through. It was especially evident during the Ferguson unrest, when the blue lines showed they had no trigger discipline for the military hardware they were wielding. It was laughable, except for the danger they were posing to the demonstrators.
Officers who seek to serve their communities quit. Some of them have publicly denounce police services and have become staunch police abolitionists. The only officers that remain are either violent killers, or the ones willing to cover for violent killers.
All cops are bastards.
The police in my province are nice and helpful whenever I talk to them.
Your province is not in the US.
Yes, but when you say all cops, I assume globally. I am still from the Americas, just not from the US.
There are problems with policing that are pretty universal, some of which are acknowledged in Peel’s Principles of Policing way back with the Bow Street Runners. But while those principles are taught to every cadet, here in the states we otherwise ignore them.
There’s absolutely problems with drift, away from participation of the community and toward control, and while I can’t speak for which part of the Americas you’re in (the RCM have enough annual incidents to fall neatly into the ACAB category) I can say there are problems with giving one group of people authority over the rest that we’ve yet to fully solve.
Still, it’s especially bad in the states, and when black US tourists find themselves in conversation with law enforcement in Europe, the extreme level of contrition they sometimes show is an embarrassment to everyone, but a shame of the United States.
Like I said, not from the US.