Same Ish, Different Year

[ancianita]

Cops. Bottom to top, the metaphor for enforcing all law, bottom to top.

Let us commit to building back better -- forcing the good enforcers to enforce the rest.
Bottom to top.

Until then, Happy New Year -- one love!

Chorus

Let's talk about Good Cops! (Where they at? Where they at?)
The triumph of evil is just a failure to act
by all these
Good Cops! ( Where they at? Where they at?)
If you're dirty and you need someone to cover your back
you need a
Good Cop! (Where they at? Where they at?)
You'll never see em snitch on someone wearing a badge
Cuz they're the
Good Cops! (So Listen Up, Listen Up)
If you're not locking up the bad cops, you ain't good enough

Yeah
Where all them good cops at?
People keep telling me bad apples make good cops look bad
But if 99% of cops are as good as they say
They should be able to lock a couple bad apples away

And yet they don't. Not because they can't but because they won't
Cuz their highest duty is protecting and serving their own
The first rule of policing means when in doubt they'll shoot
And if they make a mistake other cops will hide the truth

Even if they want to report a cop, they know that they can't.
You're as good as DEAD on the force if you get labeled a rat.
Plus the union rep will protect them from ever losing their job
And you wonder there's criminals enforcing the law?
just ask a...

Good Cop ... chorus

Police are trained to lie to make an arrest
But they're not required to help you when you make a request
They have no affirmative duty to either serve or protect
And they're immune from prosecution if they choose to neglect.

Look at the precedent set by Taliaferro, Douglas and Warren.
No one protected Jessica Gonzales's daughters
And when she went to court to hold someone accountable for it
SCOTUS told us that it was legal for the cops to ignore her.

That's cuz a cop is an enforcer and his job's to collect
Stealing money, kicking asses and cashing forfeiture checks
Writing ridiculous tickets and waging war on drugs
Our city budgets are funded by waging war on us.

Thanks to the...

Good cops ... chorus

Sometimes a cop'll say, "its not my fault
I'm just doing my job, I'm not the guy who writes the laws
I was following orders, honoring the oath I swore."
And I'm like Nuremberg. War Trial. Principle Four.

And some people seem to believe that if they don't do crime
That the cops will leave them alone and that they'll just be fine
"Go ahead and tread on the Constitution, we don't mind"
I can't believe that these people can even be so blind.

See what they don't understand, is that the problem at hand
Is systemic, it goes beyond a single woman or man
When good people let evil people keep on laying the plans
The banality of evil lies in obeying commands.

Just ask a...

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[RocRizzo55]

1. #ACAB /nt

[ancianita]

2. Yep.

OTOH, ABACAB

[ancianita]

3. As for the payers of the checks... may art always remind us to follow the money.

Sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides
And people forget
Forget they're hiding

The girls smile
And people forget
The snow packs as the skier tracks
And people forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front - It's a put on
It's an Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on
An Eminence front
Eminence front - It's a put on
Eminence front
It's an Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on
It's a put on
It's a put on
It's a put on

Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Won't you come and join the party
Dress to kill
Dress to kill

The drinks flow
People forget
That big wheel spins, the hair thins
People forget
Forget they're hiding

The news slows
People forget
The shares crash, hopes are dashed
People forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
An Eminence front - it's a put on
It's just an Eminence front
An Eminence front - It's a put on
An Eminence front
An Eminence front- It's a put on
Eminence front
It's an Eminence front - It's a put on