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ACAB was never premised on any black and white statement of every single cop being a monster. Rather that due to the systems in place and the overwhelming corruption. It is impossible for a cop to ultimately be good. Especially as long as the systems of we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing are allowed to persist.
Plenty of people go in with the aspirations of helping the community. Those people are the exception. And often weeded out before ever joining the force. And on the off chance that they were to actually make it in. Are pressured and beaten down to Overlook and accept the corruption of their peers or risk personal threats or loss of their own job.
You may have a friend who is generally good and is also a cop. They may be a good friend. But that doesn't make them a good cop. The system makes that impossible.
IMO ACAB is great on a behavioral science level: it sets the anchor/starts the conversation with a statement as an absolute, which the defense then has to find exceptions to. While they do that grunt work, the catchy phrase enables confirmation bias in the fence-sitters and people who already agreed with it.
It’s like starting a barter at an exorbitantly high price so the buyer is primed to offer a price higher than they would’ve before hearing the anchor.