ACAB - Revision history

Belbury: /* top */ abbreviate

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	\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]		\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]
	\| original_form = All coppers are bastards		\| original_form = All coppers are bastards
	\| context = ~~First appeared in the first half of the [[~~20th century~~]] then evolved into~~ [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] ~~in [[Latin script]];~~ origin unknown		\| context = 20th century [[acronym]] commonly written as [[graffiti]], origin unknown
	\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]		\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]
	}}		}}

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	\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]		\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]
	\| original_form = All coppers are bastards		\| original_form = All coppers are bastards
	\| context = First appeared in the first half of the [[20th century]] then evolved to [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] in [[Latin script]]; origin unknown		\| context = First appeared in the first half of the [[20th century]] then evolved into [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] in [[Latin script]]; origin unknown
	\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]		\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]
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	\| origin = [[England]]		\| origin = [[England]]
	\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]		\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]
	\| original_form = ~~"''~~All coppers are bastards~~''"~~		\| original_form = All coppers are bastards
	\| context = First appeared in the first half of the [[20th century]] then evolved to [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] in [[Latin script]]; origin unknown		\| context = First appeared in the first half of the [[20th century]] then evolved to [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] in [[Latin script]]; origin unknown
	\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]		\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]

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	\| alt =		\| alt =
	\| caption = ACAB (1312) [[graffiti]] ~~sprayed~~ during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]		\| caption = ACAB (1312) [[graffiti]] written during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]
	\| origin = [[England]]		\| origin = [[England]]
	\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]		\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]

J.avanzado: changed infobox from artifact to phrase to better fit context of article

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	{{Other uses}}		{{Other uses}}
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		⚫	{{Infobox phrase

		⚫	\| name = All Cops Are Bastards
⚫	{{Infobox ~~artifact~~
	\| name = ACAB
⚫	\| ~~native_name~~ = All ~~Coppers~~ Are Bastards
	\| native_name_lang = en
	\| image = 1312 ACAB.jpg		\| image = 1312 ACAB.jpg
	\| image_size =		\| image_size =
	\| alt =		\| alt =
	\| ~~image_caption~~ = ACAB (1312) sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]		\| caption = ACAB (1312) [[graffiti]] sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]
	\| ~~image2~~ =		\| origin = [[England]]
	\| ~~image2_size~~ =		\| meaning = [[Anti-police sentiment]]
	\| ~~alt2~~ =		\| original_form = "''All coppers are bastards''"
			\| context = First appeared in the first half of the [[20th century]] then evolved to [[acronym]] written as [[graffiti]] in [[Latin script]]; origin unknown
	\| image2_caption =
	\| ~~type~~ ~~= [[Graffiti~~]]		\| coined_by = [[Strike action\|Workers on strike]]
	\| writing = [[Latin script]]
	\| symbols =
	\| created = [[England]]
	\| classification = [[Acronym]]
	\| culture = [[Anti-police sentiment]]
	}}		}}

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 {{Other uses}}
 {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
 '''ACAB''', an acronym for '''{{'}}all cops are bastards{{'}}''', is a [[Slogan|political slogan]] associated with those [[anti-police sentiment|opposed to the police]]. It is commonly expressed as a [[catchphrase]] in [[graffiti]], [[tattoo]]s and other forms of imagery in public spaces and online. The slogan is sometimes numerically rendered as '''{{'}}1312{{'}}''', with each digit representing the position of the corresponding letters in the [[English alphabet]].

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	[[File:1312 ACAB.jpg\|thumb\|ACAB (1312) sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]]]		[[File:1312 ACAB.jpg\|thumb\|ACAB (1312) sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]]]
	'''ACAB''', an acronym for '~~<nowiki/>~~'''all cops are bastards'~~<nowiki/>~~''', is a [[Slogan\|political slogan]] associated with those [[anti-police sentiment\|opposed to the police]]. It is commonly expressed as a [[catchphrase]] in [[graffiti]], [[tattoo]]s and other forms of imagery in ~~both~~ public spaces and online. The slogan is sometimes numerically rendered as '''~~<nowiki/>~~'1312'''', with each digit representing the position of the corresponding letters in the [[English alphabet]].		'''ACAB''', an acronym for '''{{'}}all cops are bastards{{'}}''', is a [[Slogan\|political slogan]] associated with those [[anti-police sentiment\|opposed to the police]]. It is commonly expressed as a [[catchphrase]] in [[graffiti]], [[tattoo]]s and other forms of imagery in public spaces and online. The slogan is sometimes numerically rendered as '''{{'}}1312{{'}}''', with each digit representing the position of the corresponding letters in the [[English alphabet]].

	==Background==		==Background==

MrOllie: Reverted 1 edit by 86.188.116.108 (talk): Rv editorializing

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	==Background==		==Background==
	The phrase "all coppers are bastards" first appeared in England in the 1920s,<ref name="Partridge1986">{{cite book\|last=Partridge\|first=Eric\|title=A Dictionary of Catch Phrases\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=1986\|isbn=978-0-415-05916-9\|page=1}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last1=Aitken-Smith\|first1=Trent\|title=The Tattoo Dictionary\|last2=Tyson\|first2=Ashley\|date=2016\|publisher=Octopus\|isbn=978-1-78472-254-8\|pages=13\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GQ" /> then was abbreviated to "ACAB" by workers on strike in the 1940s.<ref name="GQ" /> The acronym is ~~supposedly~~ historically associated with criminals in the United Kingdom<ref name=":1" /> ~~but there is no reliable evidence of that.~~ First reported as a [[Prison tattooing\|prison tattoo]] in the 1970s, it is commonly rendered as one letter per finger, or sometimes disguised as a small dot across each knuckle.<ref name="ThompsonBlack2006">{{cite book\|last1=Thompson\|first1=Tim\|url=https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803\|title=Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction\|last2=Black\|first2=Sue\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=2006\|isbn=978-0-8493-3954-7\|page=[https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803/page/n391 384]\|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In 1970, the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' ran the phrase as a headline, and wrote that it was borne by a [[Hells Angels\|Hells Angel]] on the street.<ref name="GQ">{{cite web\|last=Groundwater\|first=Colin\|date=11 June 2020\|title=A brief history of ACAB\|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning\|access-date=11 September 2020\|website=GQ}}</ref> British director [[Sidney Hayers]] also used a censored version as the title of his 1972 crime drama ''[[All Coppers Are...]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Elliot\|first=Paul\|title=Studying the British Crime Film\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=2014\|isbn=978-1-906-73374-2\|pages=78–79}}</ref>'' In 1977, a [[Newcastle upon Tyne\|Newcastle]] journalist saw it written on the walls of a prison cell.<ref name="Partridge1986" />		The phrase "all coppers are bastards" first appeared in England in the 1920s,<ref name="Partridge1986">{{cite book\|last=Partridge\|first=Eric\|title=A Dictionary of Catch Phrases\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=1986\|isbn=978-0-415-05916-9\|page=1}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last1=Aitken-Smith\|first1=Trent\|title=The Tattoo Dictionary\|last2=Tyson\|first2=Ashley\|date=2016\|publisher=Octopus\|isbn=978-1-78472-254-8\|pages=13\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GQ" /> then was abbreviated to "ACAB" by workers on strike in the 1940s.<ref name="GQ" /> The acronym is historically associated with criminals in the United Kingdom.<ref name=":1" /> First reported as a [[Prison tattooing\|prison tattoo]] in the 1970s, it is commonly rendered as one letter per finger, or sometimes disguised as a small dot across each knuckle.<ref name="ThompsonBlack2006">{{cite book\|last1=Thompson\|first1=Tim\|url=https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803\|title=Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction\|last2=Black\|first2=Sue\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=2006\|isbn=978-0-8493-3954-7\|page=[https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803/page/n391 384]\|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In 1970, the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' ran the phrase as a headline, and wrote that it was borne by a [[Hells Angels\|Hells Angel]] on the street.<ref name="GQ">{{cite web\|last=Groundwater\|first=Colin\|date=11 June 2020\|title=A brief history of ACAB\|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning\|access-date=11 September 2020\|website=GQ}}</ref> British director [[Sidney Hayers]] also used a censored version as the title of his 1972 crime drama ''[[All Coppers Are...]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Elliot\|first=Paul\|title=Studying the British Crime Film\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=2014\|isbn=978-1-906-73374-2\|pages=78–79}}</ref>'' In 1977, a [[Newcastle upon Tyne\|Newcastle]] journalist saw it written on the walls of a prison cell.<ref name="Partridge1986" />

	During the 1980s, ACAB became an anti-establishment symbol, especially within the [[punk culture\|punk]] and [[Skinheads\|skinhead]] subcultures.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /><ref name=":0" /> It was popularized in particular by the 1982 song "A.C.A.B." by [[Oi!]] band [[the 4-Skins]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /> In later years, ACAB turned into a popular slogan among European [[Football hooliganism\|football hooligans]] and [[ultras]],<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Pollard\|first=John\|date=2016\|title=Skinhead culture: the ideologies, mythologies, religions and conspiracy theories of racist skinheads\|journal=Patterns of Prejudice\|volume=50\|issue=4–5\|pages=398–419\|doi=10.1080/0031322X.2016.1243349\|s2cid=151502563\|issn=0031-322X}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and among [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] and [[Anti-authoritarianism\|anti-authoritarian]] movements across the world.<ref name="GQ" /> In certain contexts, the [[Anti-Defamation League]] categorizes the phrase as a [[List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols\|hate symbol]] and describes it as "a slogan of long standing in the [[skinhead]] culture", while noting the phrase is used both by racist and anti-racist skinheads.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|title=ACAB\|url=https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/acab\|access-date=2019-05-30\|website=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref name="guerra">{{cite journal\|last=Guerra\|first=Nicola\|title=Dalla strada alla letteratura, le spericolate e propizie vicende del forestierismo A.C.A.B.. Il contatto linguistico tra italiano e inglese nelle sottoculture Skinhead e Ultras\|trans-title=From the road to literature, the reckless and auspicious events of the forestry industry A.C.A.B .. The linguistic contact between Italian and English in the Skinhead and Ultras subcultures\|url=https://www.academia.edu/4566221\|journal=Analele Universităţii Din Craiova, Seria Ştiinţe Filologice Linguistică Nr. 1-2\|date=January 2013\|publisher=Universităţii din Craiova\|access-date=2020-06-03}}</ref>		During the 1980s, ACAB became an anti-establishment symbol, especially within the [[punk culture\|punk]] and [[Skinheads\|skinhead]] subcultures.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /><ref name=":0" /> It was popularized in particular by the 1982 song "A.C.A.B." by [[Oi!]] band [[the 4-Skins]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /> In later years, ACAB turned into a popular slogan among European [[Football hooliganism\|football hooligans]] and [[ultras]],<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Pollard\|first=John\|date=2016\|title=Skinhead culture: the ideologies, mythologies, religions and conspiracy theories of racist skinheads\|journal=Patterns of Prejudice\|volume=50\|issue=4–5\|pages=398–419\|doi=10.1080/0031322X.2016.1243349\|s2cid=151502563\|issn=0031-322X}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and among [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] and [[Anti-authoritarianism\|anti-authoritarian]] movements across the world.<ref name="GQ" /> In certain contexts, the [[Anti-Defamation League]] categorizes the phrase as a [[List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols\|hate symbol]] and describes it as "a slogan of long standing in the [[skinhead]] culture", while noting the phrase is used both by racist and anti-racist skinheads.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|title=ACAB\|url=https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/acab\|access-date=2019-05-30\|website=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref name="guerra">{{cite journal\|last=Guerra\|first=Nicola\|title=Dalla strada alla letteratura, le spericolate e propizie vicende del forestierismo A.C.A.B.. Il contatto linguistico tra italiano e inglese nelle sottoculture Skinhead e Ultras\|trans-title=From the road to literature, the reckless and auspicious events of the forestry industry A.C.A.B .. The linguistic contact between Italian and English in the Skinhead and Ultras subcultures\|url=https://www.academia.edu/4566221\|journal=Analele Universităţii Din Craiova, Seria Ştiinţe Filologice Linguistică Nr. 1-2\|date=January 2013\|publisher=Universităţii din Craiova\|access-date=2020-06-03}}</ref>

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	==Background==		==Background==
	The phrase "all coppers are bastards" first appeared in England in the 1920s,<ref name="Partridge1986">{{cite book\|last=Partridge\|first=Eric\|title=A Dictionary of Catch Phrases\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=1986\|isbn=978-0-415-05916-9\|page=1}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last1=Aitken-Smith\|first1=Trent\|title=The Tattoo Dictionary\|last2=Tyson\|first2=Ashley\|date=2016\|publisher=Octopus\|isbn=978-1-78472-254-8\|pages=13\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GQ" /> then was abbreviated to "ACAB" by workers on strike in the 1940s.<ref name="GQ" /> The acronym is historically associated with criminals in the United Kingdom.<ref name=":1" /> First reported as a [[Prison tattooing\|prison tattoo]] in the 1970s, it is commonly rendered as one letter per finger, or sometimes disguised as a small dot across each knuckle.<ref name="ThompsonBlack2006">{{cite book\|last1=Thompson\|first1=Tim\|url=https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803\|title=Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction\|last2=Black\|first2=Sue\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=2006\|isbn=978-0-8493-3954-7\|page=[https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803/page/n391 384]\|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In 1970, the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' ran the phrase as a headline, and wrote that it was borne by a [[Hells Angels\|Hells Angel]] on the street.<ref name="GQ">{{cite web\|last=Groundwater\|first=Colin\|date=11 June 2020\|title=A brief history of ACAB\|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning\|access-date=11 September 2020\|website=GQ}}</ref> British director [[Sidney Hayers]] also used a censored version as the title of his 1972 crime drama ''[[All Coppers Are...]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Elliot\|first=Paul\|title=Studying the British Crime Film\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=2014\|isbn=978-1-906-73374-2\|pages=78–79}}</ref>'' In 1977, a [[Newcastle upon Tyne\|Newcastle]] journalist saw it written on the walls of a prison cell.<ref name="Partridge1986" />		The phrase "all coppers are bastards" first appeared in England in the 1920s,<ref name="Partridge1986">{{cite book\|last=Partridge\|first=Eric\|title=A Dictionary of Catch Phrases\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=1986\|isbn=978-0-415-05916-9\|page=1}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last1=Aitken-Smith\|first1=Trent\|title=The Tattoo Dictionary\|last2=Tyson\|first2=Ashley\|date=2016\|publisher=Octopus\|isbn=978-1-78472-254-8\|pages=13\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GQ" /> then was abbreviated to "ACAB" by workers on strike in the 1940s.<ref name="GQ" /> The acronym is supposedly historically associated with criminals in the United Kingdom<ref name=":1" /> but there is no reliable evidence of that. First reported as a [[Prison tattooing\|prison tattoo]] in the 1970s, it is commonly rendered as one letter per finger, or sometimes disguised as a small dot across each knuckle.<ref name="ThompsonBlack2006">{{cite book\|last1=Thompson\|first1=Tim\|url=https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803\|title=Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction\|last2=Black\|first2=Sue\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|year=2006\|isbn=978-0-8493-3954-7\|page=[https://archive.org/details/forensichumanide00thom_803/page/n391 384]\|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In 1970, the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' ran the phrase as a headline, and wrote that it was borne by a [[Hells Angels\|Hells Angel]] on the street.<ref name="GQ">{{cite web\|last=Groundwater\|first=Colin\|date=11 June 2020\|title=A brief history of ACAB\|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning\|access-date=11 September 2020\|website=GQ}}</ref> British director [[Sidney Hayers]] also used a censored version as the title of his 1972 crime drama ''[[All Coppers Are...]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Elliot\|first=Paul\|title=Studying the British Crime Film\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=2014\|isbn=978-1-906-73374-2\|pages=78–79}}</ref>'' In 1977, a [[Newcastle upon Tyne\|Newcastle]] journalist saw it written on the walls of a prison cell.<ref name="Partridge1986" />

	During the 1980s, ACAB became an anti-establishment symbol, especially within the [[punk culture\|punk]] and [[Skinheads\|skinhead]] subcultures.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /><ref name=":0" /> It was popularized in particular by the 1982 song "A.C.A.B." by [[Oi!]] band [[the 4-Skins]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /> In later years, ACAB turned into a popular slogan among European [[Football hooliganism\|football hooligans]] and [[ultras]],<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Pollard\|first=John\|date=2016\|title=Skinhead culture: the ideologies, mythologies, religions and conspiracy theories of racist skinheads\|journal=Patterns of Prejudice\|volume=50\|issue=4–5\|pages=398–419\|doi=10.1080/0031322X.2016.1243349\|s2cid=151502563\|issn=0031-322X}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and among [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] and [[Anti-authoritarianism\|anti-authoritarian]] movements across the world.<ref name="GQ" /> In certain contexts, the [[Anti-Defamation League]] categorizes the phrase as a [[List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols\|hate symbol]] and describes it as "a slogan of long standing in the [[skinhead]] culture", while noting the phrase is used both by racist and anti-racist skinheads.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|title=ACAB\|url=https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/acab\|access-date=2019-05-30\|website=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref name="guerra">{{cite journal\|last=Guerra\|first=Nicola\|title=Dalla strada alla letteratura, le spericolate e propizie vicende del forestierismo A.C.A.B.. Il contatto linguistico tra italiano e inglese nelle sottoculture Skinhead e Ultras\|trans-title=From the road to literature, the reckless and auspicious events of the forestry industry A.C.A.B .. The linguistic contact between Italian and English in the Skinhead and Ultras subcultures\|url=https://www.academia.edu/4566221\|journal=Analele Universităţii Din Craiova, Seria Ştiinţe Filologice Linguistică Nr. 1-2\|date=January 2013\|publisher=Universităţii din Craiova\|access-date=2020-06-03}}</ref>		During the 1980s, ACAB became an anti-establishment symbol, especially within the [[punk culture\|punk]] and [[Skinheads\|skinhead]] subcultures.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /><ref name=":0" /> It was popularized in particular by the 1982 song "A.C.A.B." by [[Oi!]] band [[the 4-Skins]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GQ" /> In later years, ACAB turned into a popular slogan among European [[Football hooliganism\|football hooligans]] and [[ultras]],<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Pollard\|first=John\|date=2016\|title=Skinhead culture: the ideologies, mythologies, religions and conspiracy theories of racist skinheads\|journal=Patterns of Prejudice\|volume=50\|issue=4–5\|pages=398–419\|doi=10.1080/0031322X.2016.1243349\|s2cid=151502563\|issn=0031-322X}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and among [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] and [[Anti-authoritarianism\|anti-authoritarian]] movements across the world.<ref name="GQ" /> In certain contexts, the [[Anti-Defamation League]] categorizes the phrase as a [[List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols\|hate symbol]] and describes it as "a slogan of long standing in the [[skinhead]] culture", while noting the phrase is used both by racist and anti-racist skinheads.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|title=ACAB\|url=https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/acab\|access-date=2019-05-30\|website=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref><ref name="guerra">{{cite journal\|last=Guerra\|first=Nicola\|title=Dalla strada alla letteratura, le spericolate e propizie vicende del forestierismo A.C.A.B.. Il contatto linguistico tra italiano e inglese nelle sottoculture Skinhead e Ultras\|trans-title=From the road to literature, the reckless and auspicious events of the forestry industry A.C.A.B .. The linguistic contact between Italian and English in the Skinhead and Ultras subcultures\|url=https://www.academia.edu/4566221\|journal=Analele Universităţii Din Craiova, Seria Ştiinţe Filologice Linguistică Nr. 1-2\|date=January 2013\|publisher=Universităţii din Craiova\|access-date=2020-06-03}}</ref>

XoeKing: Copyedits to introduction section

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Copyedits to introduction section

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	[[File:1312 ACAB.jpg\|thumb\|ACAB (1312) sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]]]		[[File:1312 ACAB.jpg\|thumb\|ACAB (1312) sprayed during the [[2019–2021 Chilean protests]]]]
	'''ACAB''', or "'''all cops are bastards'''", is a [[Slogan\|political slogan]] associated with those [[anti-police sentiment\|opposed to the police]]. It is ~~typically~~ ~~written~~ as a [[catchphrase]] in [[graffiti]], [[tattoo]]s or other imagery in public spaces, ~~including~~ online ~~spaces~~. It is sometimes numerically rendered as "'''1312'''", representing the position of the letters in the [[English alphabet]].		'''ACAB''', an acronym for '<nowiki/>'''all cops are bastards'<nowiki/>''', is a [[Slogan\|political slogan]] associated with those [[anti-police sentiment\|opposed to the police]]. It is commonly expressed as a [[catchphrase]] in [[graffiti]], [[tattoo]]s and other forms of imagery in both public spaces and online. The slogan is sometimes numerically rendered as '''<nowiki/>'1312'''', with each digit representing the position of the corresponding letters in the [[English alphabet]].

	==Background==		==Background==