Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot

No, that would be impossible. He took a picture with a bible

Once police throwing out/locking up the bad ones starts to become the norm, instead of circling the wagons and covering up each others’ crimes, we’ll start to see that distinction. In our universe in the present, however, the police, their unions, the prosecutors, and the judges all act almost in lockstep to prevent police from ever being accountable for any of their actions in almost all situations. Thus ACAB.

Fuck that. Power-tripping bullys are the only people I've known that wanted to be cops.

TF kinda "real" cop keeps their head down in a corrupt system?

Maybe they didn't know that's the system they were signing up for, cause they're fuckin dumb... like a cop...

It is simplistic, but until cops start policing themselves, they can cope. Keeping your head down in a corrupt system only reinforces it. Citizens can't tell from a distance the difference between a good cop and a bad cop.

Get out of here with your sound logic and reasoning!

The point of ACAB is that even if someone goes in with the best intentions, the entire system is set up to identify and exclude any good cops who would refuse to protect the corrupt. So eventually, the only cops remaining are the corrupt and the ones who are tacitly supporting corruption. Even the “good” cops who aren’t directly corrupt are at least implicit, because they wouldn’t be able to stay on the force if they tried exposing the corruption. Thus, ACAB, because all cops who make it through the probationary period are at least complicit.

It is akin to the idiom "1 rotten apple spoils the bunch". Even a 'good cop' covers for, or supports directly or indirectly bad ones. Their internal culture is manifestly rotten with an "us vs them" mentality.

Spends the day cursing being surrounded by criminals, at best trying to ignore racist jokes, and gets lucky nobody challenges their supreme authority so doesn't get on the news: a good cop (for now)

ACAB is about the whole system of law enforcement being corrupt and not the characteristics of individual pigs.

1. no, maybe you're confused because pigs are a species, but these people choose to be cops and they can quit. more importantly, cops are harmful, races are not.
2. yes. bastards may do good things from time to time. most likely it will coincide with self-preservation. doesn't change their role in the system overall though.
3. no, because it's not a prophecy at all; it's an observation.
4. that's a good question. certainly there are countries in which cops have better training. but ultimately in a capitalist system cops exist to protect capital. of course the more you implement socialist policies the less likely it is for conflict to bubble up, and that means less problems with cops. but the moment something goes seriously wrong, even the well behaved ones would be ordered to crack down on citizens.

for your last paragraph: yes they are, and you partly explain why in this very paragraph. it's about how they're trained and how they're used.

don't forget that they started as a service to catch slaves for the owners. they're still more or less on that mission, only now that slavery isn't as common, they expanded to wage slaves and other oppressed people instead. and they still serve the masters.

Were the Capitol Police who defended against these insurrectionists bastards? For example, Eugene Goodman who routed the mob away?

I feel when you have to cherrypick examples, it hurts the argument rather than helps.

While others will surely fill you in further, ill table this idea for ya

• Are we utilizing an identical equivalent to racial stereotypes?

No. because a cop stops being an """""oppressed minority"""''" (needs more quotes fr) as soon as they take off the badge