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And the whole point of a catch phrase or saying such as ACAB is to boil a statement down past the nuance. I'm sure most people are willing to acknowledge that there are good cops. That's not entirely the point. When you point out good cops, we can point out similar instances of a good cop being driven off the force for not falling in line or the "good cop" covering for a bad one.
Did you also rail against the phrase "black lives matter" because it didn't address the nuance that other lives matter as well? Cause that misses the point. When a non-black person was killed, people weren't trotting out that phrase. Similarly if there's a good interaction with a cop, people aren't going to start screaming ACAB. Those phrases generally get brought out when there's a bad cop or black people are killed.
If it's not the point that all cops are bad then why do you use a phrase which states the exact opposite? How can you, with a straight face, justify a stance and narrative that intentionally removes nuance as you just said?
The whole black lives matter thing isn't relevant to my country so I won't comment on that as I quite simply don't know enough about it.
Because while you drone on about the nuance from the cops side of things, you completely ignore the nuance from the victims side. There's plenty of body cam video of cops blatantly violating laws and rights and facing no consequences despite literally doing it on camera that they had to put on and turn on themselves. That stems from either the audacity to flagrantly be a bastard as the phrase implies or that that mentality is so ingrained in them and/or the culture that they forgot to not fuck up on camera.
You're completely dismissive of the movement behind the saying ACAB because you ignore nuance too. When you understand why you do that, maybe you'll understand why that phrase is used.
And before you try to throw that back on me, remember the side you're defending chose their job and were entrusted with a responsibility to serve and protect. The rest of us didn't "choose" to be the chattel under their boots.
As I said, I wrote my dissertation on policing in minority ethnic communities. I specifically went out of my way to understand the sensitivities before I started the career. I also have a master's degree in human rights law, and continue to work in the legal field dealing with these topics every day. I am far better placed than most to understand both sides of the situation (though I'd argue against the assumption that there are 'sides').
How can you say there are all these videos all the time when I haven't even said where I'm from? Because in my country, incidents like what I see often from America are extremely rare.
I dismiss the ACAB movement because it is by definition reductionist. When you say ALL of something is anything in society then I will immediately raise my eyebrows to that claim. Society is not that simple.
I knew you weren't American simply because you were WAY over-educated for law enforcement. At best you were in a Federal Agency but that was highly unlikely.
ACAB is admittedly more of an American phenomenon. Policing in other Western nations is generally far better, but imperfect, and this stark difference in education standards is a significant (but not the only) reason why. In the US high intelligence is considered an indicator the individual will find police work dull drudgery and greatly reduces the likelihood of, if not overtly disqualifies them from being approved to become a police officer.
Appealing for nuance where the problem literally is they are too uneducated to appreciate nuance is unreasonable. The solution requires bold and blunt 'enough is enough' statements that clearly declare society is done with the concept of law enforcement as it stands and wants the return of classic peace officers.