• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 hours ago

        It absolutely does. By “good” cops, I mean those who follow protocols and are generally nice to the people they lord over.

        When I say ACAB, I am not necessarily weighing in on the individual character of all police officers (although often they do suck as individuals). What I mean is that the role that cops play in society is evil. The police are here to impose the will of the capitalist class on the working class every single day. Even if they follow protocols while doing it, even if individual cops rarely do “the right thing”, even if the “good” cop in your head or your social network or family is otherwise an excellent person outside their police work, all cops are still cops and therefore categorically evil.

        ACAB includes “good” cops because the police are a categorically evil institution.