ACAB : memes

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 70 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm a school bus driver and I regularly get infuriated by people who drive past me when I have my red flashers on and stop sign out, wishing there was a cop around. Only once so far have I gotten my wish ... and unfortunately it was the cop driving past me at 40 mph just as some of my kids were about to cross the road. I looked down and saw him with his phone in his right hand and his left hand on the wheel, not paying the slightest attention to what was in front of him.

I'm lucky he didn't run over any kids, because I probably would have gotten shot.

[–] ikidd 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One of my favorite justiceporn vids was a woman that habitually drove around a stopped schoolbus (on the freaking sidewalk) on her commute. Cop was waiting for her one day and she got roflstomped by the judge on those charges.

[–] CodexArcanum 58 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

[–] thenextguy 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They've got SCMODS.

[–] mipadaitu 8 points 3 weeks ago

Needs a new cigarette lighter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Shit

What?

Rollers

No

Yep

Shit

[–] Lawnman23 5 points 3 weeks ago

Are you the police?

No ma'am. We’re musicians.

[+] [email protected] -50 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't want to be the guy defending cops, but there is usually more than one officer in a squad car. There is no rule against a passenger being distracted.

[–] Postmortal_Pop 66 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Where I live it's strictly one cop per car unless they're training. That's why they pull people over in packs.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.

Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.

More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.

[–] Lennny 26 points 3 weeks ago

Easier to terrorize minorities if you spread out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fewer witnesses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In Europe, it's exactly because they want witnesses, cops' words don't carry more weight than yours by default, so if they ticket you, they want at least two testimonies on their side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, but in the US they don't want to risk two cops messing up their witness testimony. Better to just have one, because a cop's word is law anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds like even their leaders assume they're horribly stupid...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't seen that before. I guess they really are just using a laptop and driving at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Or they sit at green lights because they are too into their laptop to notice the light change

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

In my area it's always one cop, and they are driving and using their laptop that sits on the passenger side

[–] Viking_Hippie 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't want to be the guy defending cops, but

Has never been the start of a good and relevant point.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't want to be the guy defending Hitler or Jeffery Dahmer, but

[–] Viking_Hippie 1 points 3 weeks ago

Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it's an ethos

-Walther Sobchek

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're thinking of cop shows from the '70s and '80s, not reality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No, I am thinking of what I have seen in real life. In my area there is almost always 2 cops per vehicle. I was unaware this was not standard.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is your area? I've lived in about 20 US states, in cities and rural areas, and it's always been 1 cop per vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I did more research and I found out it actually isn't standard where I live now, I am misremembering probably because I haven't had many interactions with police here. This is a somewhat standard practice in major cities though which would explain why I was familiar with it. I will admit copaganda probably reinforced that though, most media I've seen does depict 2 officers. But whatever, I'm always happy to learn a new reason to hate cops.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I have never seen this.

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