ACAB includes Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99.
Does ACAB include judge Dred?
He is technically a judge…
ACAB includes the two pairs of shoes walking towards the camera in the intro to The Bill in the 90s.
All Cops Are Bastards
Or
Assigned Cunt At Birth
Even the cops in Superbad
Don’t spit in that cops burger
It includes my cat, when she seizes control of her cardboard house and polices it so the other cat stays away. She’s a cute bastard, but still a bastard!
Oh wait she’s always a bastard, even when not being a cop. Because she can’t stop being a cat. So I guess it’s more “ACAB” for “all cats are bastards” in her case.
All cats are bobbies
Cats are also bastards, but not as sick or sadistic as pigs.
acab includes paw patrol
In regards to paw patrol, I feel that
- The cop dog is constantly saving the day even by doing other dogs’ jobs even when he shouldn’t be stepping in
- There are no clever stories in that universe
- Every single problem they face could be permanently solved by a Belgian Malinois with a Barret 50cal
ACAB includes the Zootopia rabbit
Dude, if you look at Zootopia objectively, remove all the personal connections and relationships to the characters… (spoilers ahead)
Judy was hired through a DEI-type program (assistant mayor Bellweather mentioned something about a “mammal inclusion initiative” that got her hired), which is normally a good thing, but they kind of play it like that’s the only reason she got a shot at being a cop. Bunnies aren’t cops in this world. The police academy was specifically designed for larger, more powerful mammals. Judy had to circumvent traditional training protocol and use her cadets’ power and size to assist her in order to graduate.
She goes off-book on her first day. Chases a supposed criminal, causing all sorts of mayhem and damage across town. Insubordination against her boss. But she doesn’t get fired, thanks to her political connections.
When she’s given a high-profile case to work (again, thanks to connections with the assistant mayor), with no resources to access, she partners with a known shifty scam artist off the street. Blackmails him with tax fraud to cooperate (instead of turning him in). Coerces him to climb a fence so she’d have “probable cause” to investigate the area without a warrant. Basically finding loopholes to circumvent official processes.
She also manages to become part of the family in the local mafia. After a single visit to the mafia, she becomes the godmother of the mob boss’ granddaughter. She even uses them later to intimidate a witness to make him talk. Literally threatens to murder the suspect if he doesn’t talk!
Then there’s the fact that she single-handedly caused the fall of two separate regimes! First, she takes down the mayor for kidnapping predators, then she takes out the next mayor for causing predators to “go savage.”
Then she gets the shifty scam artist hired into the police force as her new partner!
From an outside perspective, she’s an extremely crooked cop that abuses her position, uses political connections to get her way, makes exceptions for criminals to gain access to police resources, and violates the rights of citizens. ACAB definitely applies to Judy.
What about rule 34 Zootopia rabbit?
Especially her
How bad?
All dogs go to heaven. Except the class traitors of paw patrol
Rin Tin Tin? :(
Including Paw Patrol?
Especially Paw Patrol.
friends don’t let friends raise their kids on the police state
Paw Patrol is Copaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhUpu9MfZ0
does it include lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium?
Both Kim and the protagonist.
I’m on record saying that DE is one of the best reflections on the nature of investigative police work in any medium, but just look at it. Is anyone’s life actually better by the end?
Sooooort of. Look at what the revachol citizens militia actually is
But also yes, look at the shit he lets you get away with while being the only obe empowered to stop you.
Please. Delete this. I’ll pretend I didn’t see it
my playthrough of disco elysium involved my dubois committing a ton of time to useless shit specifically because ACAB, even if me and this delightful man are those cops. so some simple sabotage is in order. we’re just gonna waste a bunch of time doing nothing
ACAB includes B99
(Except Rosa, she quit)
I heard (don’t remember where, could be true, could be right out of someone’s ass) that the reason the show ended is many of them started feeling bad about doing a light-hearted fun show about cops. Basically the actors all started feeling like Rosa.
I think the final season had some nods to that.
Who’s Rosa?
One of the characters in the show. I think she quit to become a P.I. because she didn’t want to be a part of a bigoted system anymore.
She quit to be a P.I. that specifically investigated police misconduct. There was a great episode where she got water tight evidence to nail a cop and brought it to the police commissioner, who thanked her and destroyed it.
The commissioner believed that prosecuting the cop would have gotten her removed from office and “someone worse” would take over, and she considered herself “one of the good ones.”
it was a captain working towards commissioner, but yeah, that’s the episode summary. it ends with jake, the writer’s room’s go to self insert character, saying “i guess i am part of the problem and figuring out how to fix that is harder than i thought”
the final episodes leave the impression that jakes decision to retire is driven solely by fatherhood, but the overall season implies that jake both wants to be a present father and to raise a son who has a dad who’s a former cop rather than a cop. obviously he still supports his cop wife, amy, but i think there’s a lot of meat there to that jake views her work reforming the nypd and their sexist biggoted ways that he’s spent the last 2 years finally seeing as important to making new york a meaningfully better place.
i also think it’s important to note that one of jake’s last acts as a police detective is slipping a pen into his non-violent criminal friend’s pocket so he can escape from prison.
look. brooklyn 99 is copaganda but it’s the one piece of copaganda i recommend people check out because there’s very much eras to it and as a piece of media it reveals an interesting shift in american politics. it’s a unique relic for this reason, and it’s probably the safest piece of copaganda to expose someone to without risking them leaving thinking the police stats is good. but anyway the eras of brooklyn 99 are:
- uncritical celebration of the television staples of workplace comedy and cop show
- cop show as social critique of racial injustice with an undercritical view of the role of copaganda in racial injustice
- hopeful projection of what would be possible if community policing was focused on care rather than punishment
- exhausted and frustrated deconstruction of copaganda, seemingly from the perspective of that the making of this show that they had loved working on, and loved working on together, was from the beginning a naive mistake
and remember kids: problematic media from a prior age should be celebrated for having become problematic. problematic media from a prior age means the overall narrative has shifted. brooklyn 99 was once beloved by liberal audiences and now leaves them uncomfortable. brooklyn 99 hasn’t changed. it can’t. it’s over. but the culture’s relationship to it has because our shared understanding of ourselves and eachother has. now we can get our detective show fix from something like Poker Face where the detective is a drifter on the run from the mafia and the fbi, and all the cops are in the pocket of a powerful rich man.
Does ACAB include Ghost in the Shell’s Major Motoko Kusanagi?
Tell me you haven’t read the manga without telling me you haven’t read the manga by asking that question…
Yes, it applies to her, like a hundred times over! Coming from someone who disagrees with ACAB. But that woman is just flat out a murderous criminal. The animes really play it down, but
The Ghost in the Shell (original manga)
She literally ends up taking a hostage with the plan of faking her own death in the following hostage rescue to escape murder charges after comparing her work killing some guy (who didn’t really do anything besides sitting on a chair) that she spotted a mere second earlier (her correction to the prosecutor: “0.82 seconds”) to that of a “waste treatment plant” in trial.
Her biggest smile in the entire manga is in the recollection of when she was setting things up so that a known terrorist will shoot his own underage son through a door. (“The kid was like sixteen, but he was bragging about how he killed two of our men.”)
yes, though I hesitate to call GITS copoganda as a whole. There’s definitely some iterations of it that are, but there’s also some that show that the ruling class controlling Section 9 are corrupt, and Kusanagi has to leave the force to pursue justice because the cops can’t provide it.
does it include the tatchkomas? (forgive spelling, old lazy stoned guy)
Sadly, yes. Tatchkomas don’t have fathers.
I guess that depends on whether you consider lab technicians cops.
Texas TPSA student organization would never let her compete due to their dress code.
It includes Keanu Reeves in Point Break
And speed. And Sandra Bullock in Heat!
Pauley Perrette was born in 1969. Solid “suitable for dad” territory.
Nobody will ever convince me that it applies to Olivia Benson. I’ll die on this hill (probably death by cop).
I’m with you.
That Stabler guy though…
