ACAB Compilation/Mega-Archive/Collection: A helpful and regularly updated resource on why EVERY cop is bad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/allvegan/comments/fu7zd3/acab_compilationmegaarchivecollection_a_helpful/

created by justanediblefriend on 03/04/2020 at 12:59 UTC

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#On cops (and U.S. law):

CW: Sexual assault, suicide, police brutality, white supremacy, bigotry, slavery, and puppycide.

On the intended purpose of cops.

On the duties of cops.

1: https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-and-origins-american-policing%21

2: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-origins-of-policing-in-the-united-states/%21

3: https://www.jstor.org/stable/29765953?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

4: https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf

On the pervasive vices of cops.

5: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html

6: https://www.barneslawllp.com/blog/police-not-required-protect

7: https://www.mintpressnews.com/empty-homes-outnumber-the-homeless-6-to-1-so-why-not-give-them-homes/207194/

On the bigotry of cops.

8: http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp#notes%21

9: https://theconversation.com/police-perpetrators-of-domestic-violence-what-do-we-know-and-what-can-be-done-49441%21

On the brutality of cops.

10: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/should-cops-be-allowed-at-pride%21

11: https://www.bustle.com/articles/166925-the-origins-of-pride-month-what-you-should-know-about-its-history%21

12: https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938186/police-shootings-killings-racism-racial-disparities%21

13: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/02/the-role-of-structural-racism-in-police-violence/553340/%21

14: https://theintercept.com/2018/11/05/new-york-times-police-white-supremacy/%21

15: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf%21

Note 1: The Snopes source is a bit weird. The conclusion the author puts is that these claims are a "mix." But reading the entire thing, it seems to entirely support Dr. Kappeler, Dr. Harring, Dr. Potter, and Dr. McMullin's claims that these institutions were developed to protect narrow class interests, control minorities, and uphold >!slavery!<. The disagreement from the author seems to be just that this implies something about the police today. As such, I hope that with respect to claims about the intended purpose of cops, this "Mixture" verdict does nothing to harm anything here.

16: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/%21

17: https://web.archive.org/web/20190416064933/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-some-cops-use-the-badge-to-commit-sex-crimes/2018/01/11/5606fb26-eff3-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html%21

18: https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/%21

19: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/%21

20: https://puppycidedb.com/%21

Summary and conclusion

These sources are specifically to do with cops. Cops as individuals are, generally speaking, full of vices and disposed to wrongdoing. They are guilty of >!domestic abuse!<, >!puppycide!<, >!sexual assault!<, and >!brutality!<. The institution of cops itself was originally intended to protect narrow class interests and uphold >!slavery!<. The institution of cops today is not only >!bigoted!<, it is explicitly designed to be so, with cops admitting that they create policies >!specifically to arrest black people!<. It also *continues* to uphold class interests, valuing property over lives and kicking people out of unused properties to die in order to keep these properties profitable. Both originally and today, the institution has ties with >!white supremacy!<.

What is *not* specifically to do with cops is mere state law enforcement. The ban on cop apologia is **not** a ban on discussing and defending the enforcement of state laws. Members of this community are free to explore the merits of law enforcers in a hypothetical state. But the defense of several contemporary actual cop institutions around the world is not allowed.

As a final note, the reason you see `(credit: some comraderino)` is we hope that this will encourage members of the community to submit other sources for the mods to consider adding to this command for the purposes of education. This does not necessarily entail you being mentioned each time it's up to you how you are credited. Thanks!

Comments

Comment by justanediblefriend at 03/04/2020 at 13:06 UTC

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Please note that this has been updated before, and I plan to keep updating it. **Please send me more resources of this sort.**

I'd also like a new, broader one. I have a few resources to establish much of the same stuff, but globally. However, I need more. **I want more broad, general stuff, like studies, laws in various countries, and so on** rather than individual events. I have many individual events of abuse by cops in the Netherlands, the U.K., Germany, and so on, but while a list of such individual events may be something I'll make as well eventually, general stuff is a higher priority.

You can also find this compilation **here**[1].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/allvegan/wiki/cops

Comment by FeedEmSteelToeBoots at 29/05/2020 at 02:10 UTC*

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Another historical example of the state breaking the efforts of organized labor is the use of police forces in union breaking in the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Sidney L. Herring, taking Marx’s observation that the police exist to protect the interests of the ruling capitalist class, describes how the police forces in the United States were transformed during this time period by the class struggles between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The police acted to break up the numerous strikes of the time period, to provide protection to companies under strikes, and to control and gather intelligence on working-class communitiesHarring, S. (1993). Policing a class society: the expansion of the urban police in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In GREENBERG D. (Ed.), *Crime And Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Crimonology* (pp. 546-567). Temple University Press. Retrieved May, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14btbrw.29

A quote from that reading."Thousands of strikes occurred [during 1870-1915]: hundreds of them reaching major proportions. Whole cities were involved in these struggles. Thousands were injured, mostly beaten by the police; hundreds were shot, and perhaps a hundred were killed, again mostly by the municipal police."Another interesting part of this reading is how it points to how police forces were often increased and given more power during the late 19th century in response to strikes and growth in immigrant labor forces.

There's a lot more to this article, talking about the history of urban police forces during the late 19th and early 20th century, and how they were involved in protecting bourgeois interests against labor movements. I hope this is of some interest.

Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2020 at 00:53 UTC

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By 'bad' do you mean to say all cops are necessarily *bad people*? Or that, in being complicit in a morally problematic institution, they're acting badly?