Who do the ACAB rules apply to?

friends don't let friends raise their kids on the police state

Seriously if anyone has kids, have them watch some of the shows on PBS Kids. Most are far less annoying than the slop Disney's been producing for the 2-6 age group, and all are far more educational.

Like, Daniel tiger is annoying but at least teaches good stuff (I've literally referenced it while teaching my kids something to help reinforce), but there's some really good shows on there like Molly from Denali, Alma's Way, Hero Elementary, Wild Krats, and Carl the Collector. Better paced, better animation and a million times better writing, plus they all happen to be shows from different human perspectives than just a random talking mouse or talking dog teaching a corporate-approved malaise

I've had to sit through several episodes and a couple of movies. Never once have they cleaned up their own messes.

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?

Rin Tin Tin? :(

The entire show is written so lazily it's just another form of slop. I have a paw patrol book we got at a garage sale where one windmill at a windmill farm stops spinning because one of the blades broke causing a power outage, so they use a surf board as a replacement blade and the day is saved. Literally not how any of this works and they could've spent 5 minutes researching windmills and made an actually educational story but instead they went for slop.

Y'know how they could've written it to be more educational? Maybe one of the windmills had a motor issue and the power flickered due to the frequency being off, so they first go to the substation and switch off the power flow from the wind farm to just pull in from other sources, then they repair the windmill motor then restore the connection from the wind farm. Its still lazy, it doesn't teach much but it at least doesn't teach kids that if they see a stopped windmill to panic that there will be a power outage.

There's also literally an episode where the paw patrol gang influences an election. The villain was set to win the local election so the paw patrol gang goes into an advertising blitz to drown out the bad guy's underdog (hehe) campaign but it's all okay because the Right Person won the election! I saw this one while my kids were spending time with their trump voting grandparents

Every time my daughter asks for Paw Patrol I say "nope we're not watching copaganda" and I look forward to whenever she repeats that to people. When the kids are older I'll probably explain to them about slop vs quality shows. Like, I've learned things from the kids watching Curious George, like what should and shouldn't go into compost bin or to just use a pair of pliers when driving a nail so you don't risk hitting your fingers. I want my kids watching shows that actually help them understand the real world, not just slop that's made to mesmerize them with pretty colors and catchy lines then turns around to sell them a line of merch

Tbf every problem except being a free unincarcerated person and having too many dead bodies can be solved with a Belgian Malinois with a Barret .50 cal

What about the janitor Mom lady from High Potential who assists cops?

• The writing staff literally threw out their scripts and rewrote the final season to try addressing the climate surrounding police violence.
• Stephanie Beatriz tweeted that any actor who makes high number residuals from producing copaganda should donate part of their checks to organizations combating police violence and corruption—she included a screenshot of her $11,000 donation to a couple of charities.
• On the show, her character, Rosa, literally stated that George Floyd was the reason she couldn't continue working as a cop and instead became a PI who investigates corruption on behalf of civilian victims.
• The cast and crew collectively donated $100,000 to combat police corruption and violence.
• The main villain of the final season was lawyer or union leader or whatever who enabled and encouraged police corruption, citing anti-white hate and how it's racist to call someone racist.
• I think it was Terry Crews who said in an interview that the show considered how it could possibly evolve into less problematic first responders or something, but that anything other than pointing out their issues and ending the show felt wrong. I can't remember exactly what was said, and I'd already spent far too much time reading interviews to refresh my memory.
• Andre Braugher reflected on his career of copaganda and how he himself had fallen into the trap of how the media sweeps the police problem under the rug.

I'm sure there's other stuff, but I've already spent an inappropriate amount of time on this comment.

Fin.

Who's Rosa?

I think the final season had some nods to that.

It's a joke!

thats because it's about the LA riots.

All cop shows are propaganda!

Why is NCIS obsessed with Israel? (Video 1hour)

Sadly, yes. Tatchkomas don't have fathers.

Lol, I've read It's great btw, I love the footnotes in the margins. And as someone that agrees with ACAB and is pro-abolishment, I knew that the answer was yes before posting.

i would say, this is an example that even decent people cannot change a failed system within. and some situational positive actions can't suppress overall degradation

He is a character meant to uphold the idea that the system can be changed from within while making the police force out to be a kookie fun place.

A fun show, at least until season 5 started explaining the punchlines, but it’s not without issue.

They're out of line, but they are correct.

i love brooklyn 99, and this is still true. i have another comment in this thread giving a deeper breakdown. the nypd partnered with b99 for a reason. i think at the end of the day the two messages that go out with b99, the creators and the equipment owners, the creators' messaging surrounding racial equity, found family, and queer acceptance comes across stronger than the equipment owner's messaging that not all cops are bastards. but you still have to engage with that the nypd cooperated on that show for a reason, and it's worth talking to less critical viewers about that no, sophia is not a monster, you fucking dipshits. what she says about defense attorneys is outright true, and the prevailing online opinion that she's a terrible person is not shared across the spectrum (this is literally an opinion i've only ever encountered with one real life person and with redditors at large)

Idk you should see how they treat any mice they get their paws on...

And all of Miss congeniality.

In Dredd's universe a "Judge" is a cop, judge and executioner.

So they are kind of ACAB+ or ACAB allys

Judge Dredd is an exploration of the British and American legal tradition where the judges are not as impartial as they are presented to you. Dredd represents the lived reality that the judge is a tool of the holders of capital

Acab doesn't cover judges. Doesn't mean they can't be bastards, just means they aren't cops.

A lot of a judges job is making sure procedure is followed. Police and DAs are generally pretty good at the paperwork, and working with them regularly means they have a relationship, which they don't with defence.

I'd say all judges are complicit.

Dunno about that one. There have been judges slipping immigrants out the back door and trying like hell to keep non-violent offenders out of prison.

Many JAB, maybe even Most JAB, but there are solid good Judges out there trying like hell to bail out the morally corrupt system. A good judge undoes the shit a previous bad judge does.

Those are the super troopers

Ehh, They're natural predators. They're training them with positive reinforcement to use their prey drive and enhanced senses to do their bidding through a reward system and pack mentality. That's not far enough away from what they're doing to cops in training to call them good bois.

That said, they're also not capable of making ethical decisions, so those treats and the dopamine hit from taking down a prey target is all they have to go on for decision-making.

I'd say they're less cops and more tools. That dog ripping into the arm of a scared young non-white man running for his life isn't exactly a good boi, no is he being forced, but he doesn't know it's wrong.

Bad Bois bad Bois, what you want, what you want, whatcha gonna do?