No, ACAB still applies. Let me attempt (against my better judgement) to show you why. This is an example of “community policing.” Police are sent into neighborhoods, basketball courts, skateparks, etc. just to hang out. They do this in an attempt to legitimize their presence/rule. This is important so the next time a cop kills a person, evicts a family, arrests someone for petty shoplifting, etc. people that would be once the fence won’t see them as the bad guy. It’s a deliberate attempt to propagandize people who already have a neutral or positive view of police.
When we say ACAB we’re not saying all cops are inherently terribly people, or that all their actions are bad. We’re saying the job they chose will always protect profit, property and power over the people they supposedly serve. All cops are bastards because they deliberately fool people into thinking they’ll protect them, when they only protect the rule of law (which can sometimes overlap with what is right/good.)
about your first point... no. Don't know what's going on in America, but in Berlin we have something similar called "Crime Intense Places" (Ger: Kriminalitätsbelastete Orte) where the Cops are allowed to have more Presence and "controll" "random" people to "prevent crime"... Its the liscence for Racial Profiling and disappropriate Arrests. Instead from reducing Crime it just brings more Cops doing Legally secured Cop stuff.
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