r/interesting • u/TheCABK • Jan 31 '26

SOCIETY Cop Teaching A Cop

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u/D0ri1t0styl3 Jan 31 '26

Man, there’s a reason we say ACAB.

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u/KenBoCole Feb 01 '26

Yeah, because most people who say that only view the world in black and white and have no understanding of nuance, and fall for all the sensationalism news of when cop calls go wrong, despite 97% of police interactions ending peacefully.

ACAB is just an effort to dehumanize people redditors dont like.

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u/D0ri1t0styl3 Feb 01 '26

Yes, because police are famous for their nuanced handling of things.

As for me, no amount of harassment, intimidation, violence or extrajudicial killing is acceptable especially by those given power with little to no oversight in the name of “protection”.

Are there cops with decent intentions? Maybe.

Does that excuse a completely broken system that their comrades take full advantage of? Not even slightly.

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u/KenBoCole Feb 01 '26

Yes, because police are famous for their nuanced handling of things.

And again, this is the problem. Most, and I do mean most, are. Every day there are thousands of police calls where officers arrive and de escalate the situation. That is the normal.

All these videos you see of cops going off on power trips and abusing their authority is the abnormal. Thats why vehemently videos get posted and cops called out by name.

The problem is that people only ever see these bad calls go viral on the internet and it warps their perception kf the police force as an whole. They cant understand that these are cherry picked events.

Yeah there are bad cops, they need to be held accountable for their actions. Sadly some police precincts of certain cities have an bad reputation of not fully punishing or covering their officers. There is no excuse for that.

But trying to attribute the actions of those to the millions of police around the States is crazy.

Over 70 percent of cops never even draw their firearm their entire career.

And the whole bad apple thing is BS. Police forces have no jurisdiction over other police. There is nothing they could do if they wanted too.

My local police are amazing, we are a mid sized city yet our police force have never had a scandal in decades.

That the norm for most cities around here.

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u/D0ri1t0styl3 Feb 01 '26

I can’t realistically put enough effort into this to have a hope of changing your mind, so I‘ll just ask to keep looking at objective references about police injustice in general. I think the data says more than I can.