ACAB..Really?

There are too many things to unpack these days. There should be nuance in everything instead of deadly broad strokes. The world was created in nuance…let’s follow that road.

ACAB- All cops are bad or all cops are xX^&*X&^. Whatever you fill in is wrong. Why because it’s just not true…..But it’s most definitely true at the same time. You see the issue is so severely nuanced that a sound bite like that does not hold the weight it carries and just further divides us as a people.

Try this instead..

All cops are bad..WHEN…They protect other cops who have histories of violence and malfeasance against citizens, especially citizens of color-since they are the brunt of the offenses. Bad or illegal behavior is not rewarded anywhere else but in military like institutions-(and corporate America, but that’s another blog).

I know a lot of great cops who would give their lives for you. It’s a fact.

Still….

All cops are bad WHO participate in coverups and do not let third party investigators do their jobs. An organization does not have the capacity to investigate itself honestly. But time and again we see internal police probes that just clear officers UNLESS there is some sort of outrage.

All cops are bad..WHEN they believe Qualified Immunity applies to them in all situations simply because they are the police. This leads to an institutional culture that believes itself above the law instead of being part of the due process of the law that serves the citizenry of it’s country.

This last one I just heard from someone whom I would have never pegged as a neoconservative.

“I saw cops kneeling in support of BLM therefore all cops are good..”

Taking a knee is only a statement. Yes it’s great when cops join in and support the rights of others. That’s a very powerful image…. but Derek Chauvin took a knee and look where that landed us.

We need to look beyond the obvious, beyond the first page of a book to find the real story.

Are ALL COPS BAD?

YES and NO

Should we defund the Police?

Yes and no.-Next time…….

 

Selah

the rev

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Blood Anarchy is my new solo release

It is a story of pain in a myriad of forms, mental, physical, emotional. You get the drift. It’s not a happy album, but one who’s story most likely echos in most of our hearts and minds.

We live in a time of pain. Sometimes we don’t know or can’t express it. Sometimes we express it in dangerous ways, to ourselves or to others.

Pain-just like birth and death-is a singular event. Even though many can “Share” the experience, each person feels it alone and ultimately deals with it alone.

This album is for you, the ones in pain, for it is my story, my journey through and in pain. Never ending, all encompassing, merciless.

Everything is blood, and blood is everything.

Everything is pain and pain is everything.

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Selah, the rev

 

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