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No, that's not the point at all.
The idea is that by choosing to be a police officer, you're condoning the bad behavior of the bastards. Even if this one particular cop has walked the straight and narrow for her entire career, she's still choosing to be a part of something we all know to be broken. So maybe she is a hero but, she's also a bastard.
But that is a premise that has yet to be established. So goes another adage that if a good person is told they're bad and worthless long enough, they'll eventually believe they're bad and worthless. So rather than promote this fast-track downward spiral / feedback-loop — call it what you will — perhaps we promote those who are on the straight & narrow their entire career? Cultures can change and police forces elsewhere reflect this pretty clearly. While the problem is systemic in nature, I just see nothing of value resorting to a literal blanket-generalization logical fallacy and using the ACABs rhetoric.
She is literally not a bastard. A career as a cop does not make someone a bastard in of itself without looking at the broader context. That is another common fallacy: Guilt by Association. What if she joined because, "if only bad people ever apply, how will it ever reform"?