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There are rotten people in any society. But in the US police brutality is endemic. Where I live the police don’t usually carry guns and don’t have the mindset that everyone is a dangerous offender. When they interact with you they do so from a place of respect. When i was first visiting my country we were pulled over for speeding and although we got a ticket, conversation ensued, the kind between people from distant countries who are curious about others’ experiences. We pulled away with a dinner invite and are still friends to this day. When there is a police car behind me I have absolutely no stress and I know my plates are not being run. One of the biggest complaints in my country is that cops are too lenient. So while im sure there are other countries where ACAB, i think the acronym should be AACAB.
It's the difference between an officer (a person charged with representing the state for the purposes of law enforcement) and a gendarme. One can add state security guards and state security soldiers to this.
In the USA the problem is with stuffing all these kinds of responsibility onto the same kind of people.
There should be an unarmed (maybe only with shockers and batons) kind of police, doing all the usual work, and gendarmes, carrying, sorry for the tautology, arms.
State security guards' role in USA is taken by either national guard or USMC, apparently, but I'm not an American, so can be mistaken. Same with state security soldiers. No problem with these parts, I think.
They say that police also gets shot at easily, well, that's to be expected, a weapon makes you not only a bigger threat, but also a bigger target. So police should be disarmed (except for pepper spray, shockers, batons, maybe pneumatic pistols shooting rubber bullets, you get the idea) and wear uniform clearly different from the new gendarmerie, which will be armed and will be used in cases where it's required.
I have seen enough body cam videos from the USA to know that not ACAB. Some were nicer than I would have been when someone behaved like that. There are public, even on YouTube, if you want to take a look. Just know that some of them get shot while being this nice, because they were not ready to shot. Another problem that results from all of those guns.
The main reason all cops are considered bastards is that the nice cop has first hand experience of bad cops doing things blatantly illegal but doesn't report them. The moment a scandal happens, they all close ranks and protect each other.
If I see a coworker doing something wildly inappropriate, I report him because I'm not a bastard.
700k coppers in the states, the nicer ones have all protected bastards?
“Policing Enables Bastards” gets away from Sith-like absolutist language that has to be argued
I don't get it, does it imply that there's no way to tell a difference, or is there some other meaning?
It means there is no difference between a cop who murders and a cop who stands by and just watches the murder happen.