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And read!</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #800000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#800000"><b>It's the</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Law</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Law" title="Category:Law"><img alt="Icon law.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/f/f8/Icon_law.svg/100px-Icon_law.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/f8/Icon_law.svg/150px-Icon_law.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/f/f8/Icon_law.svg/200px-Icon_law.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#800000; text-align:center;"><b>To punish<br />and protect</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">Capital punishment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_predators_on_the_Internet" title="Child predators on the Internet">Child predators on the Internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Safeguarding_Authority" title="Independent Safeguarding Authority">Independent Safeguarding Authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case" title="Terri Schiavo case">Terri Schiavo case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Prisoner_Machine" title="Perpetual Prisoner Machine">Perpetual Prisoner Machine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">Income tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_and_Expression" title="Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression">Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser" title="Percy Schmeiser">Percy Schmeiser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuerzas_del_orden" title="Fuerzas del orden">Fuerzas del orden</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Law" title="Template:Law">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Law" title="Template talk:Law">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Law&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Law enforcement</b> is the job of the police in most countries with a functioning government. They are expected to investigate <a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">crimes</a>, find the perpetrators, and present their case in a court of law, usually (in <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> countries) before a jury of the perpetrator's peers. Well, not exactly the perp's peers, but a general selection of normal people. </p><p>While this is a noble quest, it all too often breaks down. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarian</a> regimes often employ various levels of "<a href="/wiki/Secret_police" title="Secret police">secret police</a>" in order to patrol and regulate their populations. Such schemes often involve <a href="/wiki/Extrajudicial_punishment" title="Extrajudicial punishment">extralegal violence</a> or threats of violence, encouragement of people willing to turn in their acquaintances or enemies on flimsy grounds of wrongdoing, and less-than-transparent judicial processes. Even in governments that are not strictly authoritarian, police can function as a <a href="/wiki/Secret_society" title="Secret society">secret society</a>, for example in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, where police frequently have an unwritten code of secrecy against reporting police misconduct, the so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blue_wall_of_silence" class="extiw" title="wp:blue wall of silence" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: blue wall of silence">"blue wall of silence"</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </p><p>Even modern <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracies</a> struggle with the tendency of law enforcement to overstep their remit. In a democracy, law-enforcement personnel are supposed to be <a href="/wiki/Operational_independence" title="Operational independence">operationally independent</a>, so that in particular they can investigate anyone — up to and including the political leadership of the country — whom they suspect of having committed a crime, in any legal manner they feel appropriate, without fear or favour. Although in many countries, sitting politicians have some degree of immunity from prosecution, it may still be possible to arrest them after they leave office. Sometimes, this actually works and corrupt presidents do in fact end up in jail. Operational independence has its downsides, though, as it can mean that police are not accountable to anyone and free of repercussion. </p><p><i>Lack</i> of operational independence can lead to law enforcement being used as a weapon to target people the government doesn't like. However, laws which — intentionally or unintentionally — have a biased impact on certain groups of people can also have a similar effect — as can institutional <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> or corrupt leadership in a police force. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Misconceptions"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Misconceptions</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#.22Police_are_meant_to_.27protect_and_serve.27.21.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">"Police are meant to 'protect and serve'!"</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#.22Police_misconduct_is_just_the_result_of_bad_apples.21.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">"Police misconduct is just the result of bad apples!"</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#.22If_the_suspect_didn.27t_resist_arrest.2C_excessive_force_wouldn.27t_have_been_used.21.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">"If the suspect didn't resist arrest, excessive force wouldn't have been used!"</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#.22Racism_isn.27t_a_problem_in_the_police.21.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">"Racism isn't a problem in the police!"</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#.22Police_work_is_either_extremely_dangerous_or_getting_more_dangerous.21.22"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">"Police work is either extremely dangerous or getting more dangerous!"</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#A.C.A.B."><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">A.C.A.B.</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Want_to_read_this_in_another_language.3F"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Want to read this in another language?</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>For much of history, societies largely handled law enforcement in a fairly loose manner. For example, in a town in the middle ages or in the early modern period, one might find guards who would guard the town gates, residents (who could either be volunteers or be required to do this once a year or so) who patrolled the streets at night with torches to scare off thieves, armed guards hired by those with money to spend to safeguard their property, and bounty-hunters and soldiers brought in to deal with rioters (either by dispersing or by dismembering them). Though still fairly rudimentary of course, some societies of this time-period (or even much earlier) had more sophisticated set-ups with full-time specialists — so Athens had 300 <a href="/wiki/Slave" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave">slave</a>-archers to patrol the streets at night, Rome had the <i>vigiles</i> (who also doubled as firefighters) in the city of Rome itself and employed soldiers in that function in the provinces, and ancient China organized matters thoroughly. </p><p>The first police department in the modern sense of the term originated in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in the 17<sup>th</sup> century, during the reign of King Louis XIV — a French <i>parlement</i> registered the Paris police department in 1667. In Britain Robert Peel refined and elaborated on this sort of fairly basic arrangement, most notably in 1829 with the founding of the London Metropolitan Police, featuring (for example): </p> <ul><li>uniformed officers</li> <li>formalized training, procedure, administrative hierarchy, etc.</li> <li>civilian employees (police are not soldiers)</li> <li>a notion of civilian accountability</li></ul> <p>Most notable was the notion of preventative policing. In short: if a police patrol arrests potential/suspected thieves, this disincentivizes people from stealing things, since the risk of getting away with the deed decreases. Over the course of the 19th century, crime rates went down and punishments gradually became less extreme (for example, in 1800, vandalism in Britain could get you transported to the Australian convict-colonies, and petty theft could get you hanged). The basic policing set-up would be adopted around the world over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. </p><p>Controversies over policing, particularly in the 21st century, have led to calls to "defund the police".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Misconceptions">Misconceptions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Misconceptions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span id=""Police_are_meant_to_'protect_and_serve'!""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Police_are_meant_to_.27protect_and_serve.27.21.22">"Police are meant to 'protect and serve'!"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: "Police are meant to 'protect and serve'!"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The phrase "to protect and serve" originated with a simple Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) motto first used in 1963; other police stations have subsequently adopted it with similar bells and whistles. The motto simply serves as a short-and-sweet ideal phrase, very similar to advertising slogans such as <a href="/wiki/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart">Wal-Mart</a>'s "Save money. Live better.", despite laborers working under Wal-Mart's terrible conditions practically achieving neither. However, even when one takes the motto at face value, the police do not have the obligation to protect and serve individuals, as ruled by the Supreme Court multitudes of times. Recent examples include a court ruling in favor of the nonresponding police officer in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, and issues in protecting a woman who has a court-mandated order to protect against a violent husband in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> While the police can potentially protect people against criminals who are breaking the law, that is only secondary to their job of upholding the law. Theoretically, if there was a law that technically hurts people rather than protecting them, the police will uphold that law — note the laws enacted under the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Drugs" title="War on Drugs">War on Drugs</a>, often enacted specifically to target minorities and make their lives as miserable as possible while hiding under the veil of drug regulation.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> Police protect and serve the system rather than the citizens. </p> <h3><span id=""Police_misconduct_is_just_the_result_of_bad_apples!""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Police_misconduct_is_just_the_result_of_bad_apples.21.22">"Police misconduct is just the result of bad apples!"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "Police misconduct is just the result of bad apples!"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:240px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bad_Apple.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/d/d7/Bad_Apple.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="212" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="212" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Bad_Apple.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The thing to blame when law enforcement acts up.</div></div></div> <p>Considering how more exposed reported police brutality is and the disproportionate amount of people of color being affected by cases of racial profiling, this issue is more complicated than because the system forgets to filter out the assholes from the group. <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> was founded because of how staggeringly little the "bad apples" get punished for their dreadful behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Blaming the officer at an individual level while ignoring the factors that cause an officer to act up is only addressing the symptoms of what happens when ills of society gets deeply ingrained in policing, not the cause. </p><p>Many major law enforcement groups don't contain databases of officers who have engaged in misconduct. This allows for officers fired for misconduct in one location to simply relocate to another.<sup id="cite_ref-assocpress_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-assocpress-6">[6]</a></sup> This is particularly problematic as it relates to <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> and other forms of sexual misconduct. A thousand officers in Oklahoma lost their badges for sexual misconduct including "forcible <a href="/wiki/Sodomy" title="Sodomy">sodomy</a>" and possession of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/child_pornography" class="extiw" title="wp:child pornography" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: child pornography">child pornography</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup><sup id="cite_ref-assocpress_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-assocpress-6">[6]</a></sup> This is almost certainly an undercount however due to both the aforementioned fact that many police organizations don't have databases for officer miscount as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blue_wall_of_silence" class="extiw" title="wp:blue wall of silence" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: blue wall of silence">blue wall of silence</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup><sup id="cite_ref-assocpress_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-assocpress-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[note 1]</a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas">Texas</a> sheriff with links to the far-right <a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">terrorist</a> group <a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keepers</a> has been convicted of violating inmates' <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> by keeping them locked up days after a court ordered them to be freed.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>Cops have also been linked to gunrunning. One sheriff's captain in California pled guilty to trafficking firearms as well as committing general corruption over a period of 27 years until his arrest.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a></sup> Another cop has been busted <i>twice</i> for illegal arms running.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a></sup> The LAPD itself was embroiled in an arms running scandal as several of its officers were caught illegally buying stolen guns.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a></sup> While there are criminal penalties for selling off-roster handguns, law enforcement has been given a special exemption from these penalties in legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-law_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law-12">[11]</a></sup> The handguns in question are specifically marked by the California Code of Law as "unsafe."<sup id="cite_ref-law_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law-12">[11]</a></sup> </p><p>In 2018 the chief of police of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Arthur,_New_Mexico" class="extiw" title="wp:Lake Arthur, New Mexico" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Lake Arthur, New Mexico">Lake Arthur, New Mexico</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> resigned after questionable links were found between him and a major <a href="/wiki/2016_U.S._presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 U.S. presidential election">2016</a> <a href="/wiki/Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump">Trump</a> donor. This left the small town without any official law enforcement; forcing the town to rely on the local sheriff department for law enforcement services instead.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span id=""If_the_suspect_didn't_resist_arrest,_excessive_force_wouldn't_have_been_used!""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22If_the_suspect_didn.27t_resist_arrest.2C_excessive_force_wouldn.27t_have_been_used.21.22">"If the suspect didn't resist arrest, excessive force wouldn't have been used!"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "If the suspect didn't resist arrest, excessive force wouldn't have been used!"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:CharlesKinseyShooting.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/8/8f/CharlesKinseyShooting.jpg/300px-CharlesKinseyShooting.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="162" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/8/8f/CharlesKinseyShooting.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="429" data-file-height="232" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:CharlesKinseyShooting.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Kinsey (left) before he got shot</div></div></div> <p>It is one thing to use force to put down someone resisting arrest; it is another thing to go above and beyond, unnecessarily injuring or outright killing an individual who even displays the slightest bit of resistance or possibility of danger. One example of excessive force being unnecessarily deployed was towards a 16 year old girl at Marshall High School, where she was kicked, dragged through the ground, and tasered.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a></sup> The most jarring example of this was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey" class="extiw" title="wp:Shooting of Charles Kinsey" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Shooting of Charles Kinsey">Charles Kinsey</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a black therapist, caring for Arnaldo Rios Soto, disabled autistic man, who got shot because the officer thought the toy truck Soto was carrying was a gun; Kinsey was on the ground, with his hands raised, ready to be arrested, and he got shot <i>anyway</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-herald_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herald-15">[14]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span id=""Racism_isn't_a_problem_in_the_police!""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Racism_isn.27t_a_problem_in_the_police.21.22">"Racism isn't a problem in the police!"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: "Racism isn't a problem in the police!"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Simple fact of the matter is that it <i>is</i> a problem. A disturbing amount of police officers, both officers in rank-and-file and leadership positions from a variety of jurisdictions, have either posted offensive racist Facebook memes,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a></sup> are members of groups affiliated with racist organizations on Facebook such as the Neo-Nazi movement, White Lives Matter, or have connections to the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a></sup> This is not to say of the statistics regarding the proportion of black incarceration rates due to them possessing drugs.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[note 2]</a></sup> Implicit biases come into play here, where police officers react differently to a young, affluent, white female as opposed to an older, poor, black male. The entire point of the counter-protest movement against Black Lives Matter, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter" title="Blue Lives Matter">Blue Lives Matter</a>, for example, is merely to deflect issues minorities face in police interactions rather than address any problems. </p> <h3><span id=""Police_work_is_either_extremely_dangerous_or_getting_more_dangerous!""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Police_work_is_either_extremely_dangerous_or_getting_more_dangerous.21.22">"Police work is either extremely dangerous or getting more dangerous!"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: "Police work is either extremely dangerous or getting more dangerous!"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>While police work can involve placing officers in highly dangerous situations, relative to several other jobs, policing has actually gotten safer over the years since World War II, despite the so-called "war on cops" being trotted out by conservatives.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[note 3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[18]</a></sup> Despite the increases of violent crimes, the hazards of policing has dropped significantly from the 1970's, which may be due to body armor, enhanced medical care, better training, better policies, and better technology.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[19]</a></sup> In relation to other jobs, being a police officer ranked only 14th on the deadliest job chart in the USA, being beaten out by drivers in general such as taxi drivers or truckers, garbage collectors, farmers and ranchers, aircraft pilots, and much more.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="A.C.A.B.">A.C.A.B.</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: A.C.A.B.">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg/250px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="192" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg/375px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg/500px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="983" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_ACAB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%9A.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>ACAB graffiti in Moscow, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></div></div></div> <p>Acronym for "all cops are bastards", it is a common slogan to read and hear in reaction to stories about police brutality and is internationally recognized. It has origins in the <a href="/wiki/Skinhead" class="mw-redirect" title="Skinhead">skinhead</a> subculture in the 1970s, popularized by the 1982 song A.C.A.B. by the British <a href="/wiki/Punk" title="Punk">punk</a> band, The 4-Skins,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[21]</a></sup> though it has seen use with anti-racist skinheads as well as nonskinheads in general (being especially popular among <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communists</a> for <a href="/wiki/Communist_glossary#Class_traitor" title="Communist glossary">some reason</a>); the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> has classified it as a "hate slogan", though it notes that "it should be carefully judged in the context in which it appears."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[22]</a></sup> Another variant of the term is "1312", where the numbers correspond to the number of the alphabet for each initial. A woman in Madrid, <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> was fined for carrying an A.C.A.B. bag that disobeyed Spain's Citizens Security Law, although the initials of the bag had a parody of the phrase, displaying "All Cats Are Beautiful".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[23]</a></sup> </p><p>The theory advanced to justify its use is that when corruption, unnecessary violence, and abuse of power is widespread, even police who are not themselves corrupt, violent, or abusive still, directly or indirectly, promote a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thin_blue_line" class="extiw" title="wp:thin blue line" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: thin blue line">thin blue line</span></a>"<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> culture that protects the police who are. One notable example is the convicted murderer Wayne Couzens, who had earned the nickname 'the rapist' from his fellow officers before his conviction for the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[24]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter" title="Blue Lives Matter">Blue Lives Matter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cops_(TV_show)" title="Cops (TV show)">Cops (TV show)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferguson_effect" title="Ferguson effect">Ferguson effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pig" class="mw-redirect" title="Pig">Pig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">Police brutality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whacker" title="Whacker">Whacker</a></li></ul> <h3><span id="Want_to_read_this_in_another_language?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Want_to_read_this_in_another_language.3F">Want to read this in another language?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Want to read this in another language?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><div lang="es" style="float:left; position:relative; margin:2px; padding-left:35px;"> <div style="position:absolute; top:1px; left:1px;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lang-es.gif/30px-Lang-es.gif" decoding="async" width="30" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lang-es.gif/45px-Lang-es.gif 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lang-es.gif/60px-Lang-es.gif 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333" /></div><b><a href="/wiki/Fuerzas_del_orden" title="Fuerzas del orden">Fuerzas del orden</a></b> es la versión en <a href="/wiki/Category:Espa%C3%B1ol" title="Category:Español">español</a> de este artículo. </div><br /> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">An <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/omerta" class="extiw" title="wp:omerta" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: omerta">omerta</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></i> code instituted by police officers to protect each other from public accountability. The fact that this resembles the "no-snitching" code often employed by <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a> is probably not a coincidence.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See our note on the War on Drugs prior.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The conservatives calling the "War on Cops" referring to William Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obama-war-on-cops-police-advocacy-group-225291">who attacked Obama on the wake of a Dallas shootings that left five officers dead</a>, as well as a book called <i>The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe</i> being written by <a href="/wiki/Heather_Mac_Donald" title="Heather Mac Donald">Heather Mac Donald</a>, a secular conservative who has written for the Wall Street Journal op-ed and is from the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute">Manhattan Institute</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_enforcement&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 55 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 64 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 96 character 9. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 100 character 9. • Invalid media query at line 138 character 8. */ .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBadgerBui2020" class="citation news cs1">Badger, Emily; Bui, Quoctrung (2020-06-12). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html">"Cities Grew Safer. Police Budgets Kept Growing"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-06-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Cities+Grew+Safer.+Police+Budgets+Kept+Growing.&rft.date=2020-06-12&rft.issn=0362-4331&rft.aulast=Badger&rft.aufirst=Emily&rft.au=Bui%2C+Quoctrung&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2020%2F06%2F12%2Fupshot%2Fcities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALaw+enforcement" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">McMaken, Ryan (December, 20 2018) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again">Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again.</a> <i>Mises Institute</i>. 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(March 24, 2016) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index">Report: Aide says Nixon’s war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies</a>. <i>CNN'.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Park, Haeyoun and Lee, Jasmine C. (May 3, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/12/us/looking-for-accountability-in-police-involved-deaths-of-blacks.html">Looking for Accountability in Police-Involved Deaths of Blacks.</a> <i>The New York Times</i>. Retrieved August 5, 2019.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-assocpress-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-assocpress_6-0">6.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-assocpress_6-1">6.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-assocpress_6-2">6.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/01/police-sexual-assault-investigation">"Investigation reveals about 1,000 police officers lost jobs over sexual misconduct"</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. Published Nov. 1st, 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keeper-sheriff-convicted-violating-inmate-rights-1234827432/">Texas Lawman Linked to Oath Keepers Convicted After Violating Inmate Rights</a> - <i>Rolling Stone</i>. Published Sept. 18th, 2023.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/former-sheriff-s-captain-pleads-guilty-illegally-trafficking-firearms-admits-corruption">Former Sheriff’s Captain Pleads Guilty to Illegally Trafficking Firearms; Admits Corruption</a> - United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of California</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pressenterprise.com/2021/10/09/ex-gardena-officer-found-guilty-for-2nd-time-of-illegal-firearms-sales/">"Ex-Gardena officer found guilty for 2nd time of illegal firearms sales"</a>. Press Enterprise. 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Published on November 29, 2021. Written by Kevin Rector and Richard Winton.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-law-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-law_12-0">11.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-law_12-1">11.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/exemptpo">State Exemptions for Authorized Peace Officers: Non-Roster Handgun (Unsafe Handgun) Exemptions</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFGonzales2018" class="citation web cs1">Gonzales, Trevier (April 14, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rdrnews.com/news/local/lake-arthur-police-chief-resigns-after-bloomberg-report-city-dissolves-officer-reserve-program-after-connection/article_c54f0bb8-b67e-5433-8b10-c89e75e54078.html">"Lake Arthur police chief resigns after Bloomberg report; City dissolves officer reserve program after connection to presidential donor suggested"</a>. 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