1. #ACAB = All Cops Are Bastards
2. #AACAB = Almost All Cops Are Bastards
3. #NACAB = Not All Cops Are Bastards
4. #CANB = Cops Are Not Bastards
ACAB?
49.1%
AACAB?
20%
NACAB?
26.4%
CANB?
4.5%
Poll ended at .
Let's do this on Twitter as well (not that I have much followes over there). For comparison.
The problem with #ACAB is that most people take it literally. Oh yes, there are enough places were you should take it literally, but it is actually systemic criticism against authority. So literally I vote for AACAB, but systemic I vote for ACAB.
@jeroenpraat have met 1 (one) decent cop in my lifetime, though he was very much like "oom agent" in the Netherlands (complete with bicycle, which he preferred to ride rather than use a patrol car for all his career, he'd make sure you followed traffic law on your bike but not harrass you about drugs, maybe a second from the RPU (roads policing unit) who turned up at a rave we did but also didn't judge about drugs and chatted about road safety issues (there is perhaps a common theme here..)
@vfrmedia Yeah, the old 'wijkagent'.
@vfrmedia Wegbezuinigd!
@vfrmedia Oh wait, not all. But a lot of them.
@jeroenpraat I did live in a fairly middle class suburb of Reading, SE England so we still had the local officers but they'd go off duty in the evenings so I'd listen on my radio scanner until I heard them book off duty and *then* get on my bike to ride to the raves 😆
On Twitter this poll was not very popular.

@jeroenpraat

I knew an ex-cop once who'd been hounded off the force for coming out as trans. He seemed all right.

@jeroenpraat ABACAB = there's a hole in there somewhere
@jeroenpraat i'm voting for TSAFDDRISPSS - Treating Slogans As Full and Detailed Descriptions of Reality is Stupid and People Should Stop