🪦Aug 22, 2020
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 .
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Let's do this on Twitter as well (not that I have much followes over there). For comparison.
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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.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKAug 22, 2020
@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..)
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@vfrmedia Yeah, the old 'wijkagent'.
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@vfrmedia Wegbezuinigd!
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@vfrmedia Oh wait, not all. But a lot of them.
Aug 22, 2020 at 5:29pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKAug 22, 2020
@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 😆