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Anti-police sentiment
Anti-police sentiment is opposition to the police by groups or individuals. This sentiment can arise from perceptions of systemic issues within policing institutions, such as misconduct, excessive use of force, racial profiling, and corruption.
In 2021, a police officer was recorded slamming student protesters in Banten. In the same year, a woman named Novia Widyasari was found dead in front of her father's grave after she found out about her pregnancy in aftermath of the rape perpetrated by a police officer who was her boyfriend. The incident later raised the anti-police sentiment among the locals even further.
The sentiment began to resurface after the murder of Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in 2022. The killing was ordered by Inspector General Ferdy Sambo, his former boss. Police use of tear gas and incompetence in Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster also fueled this sentiment.
On 2024, a primary school teacher from Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi was arrested for allegedly disciplining a student who happens to be a son of a local police officer and asked to pay 50 million Rupiah fines. The arrest prompted anger among Indonesian internet users, flaming another anti-police sentiment in Indonesia.
Anti-Garda Síochána (Republic of Ireland police) sentiment is common among Irish Travellers, a social group with high levels of poverty, unemployment and crime. Gardaí were also accused of police brutality in the Shell to Sea protests of 2006–2011, and anti-brutality protests took place in 2007. Anti-Garda sentiment is also common in Dublin's north inner city, an area of high crime, deprivation and drug addiction. Local youths attacked Gardaí during the 2006 Dublin riots, sparked by a Love Ulster protest. The Kerry babies case of 1984 also sparked anti-Garda feeling in the area. The acronym AGAB, a variation on ACAB, is sometimes used.
In Poland, the abbreviation CHWDP is used with the meaning of "a dick in the police's ass." It often appears as graffiti.
A series of riots took place in Sweden in April 2022 after Danish-born, right-wing activist Rasmus Paludan attempted to hold a series of Quran burning demonstrations in the country. Counterprotesters responded by attacking participants and engaging in rioting, often getting into violent clashes with police. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg said that, in some cases, protesters "tried to kill police." In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Kivanc Atak of Stockholm University interpreted the riots to be unusual as, unlike most incidents causing conflict between police and minorities, the unrest was not directed against a specific case of police misconduct nor even the subject in general. Manne Gerell of Malmö University further added that some of those involved in the unrest might have been seeking to vent general frustration against police, such as over the use of stop and search powers. Anders Thornberg said some rioters were suspected to have "[had] links to criminal gangs" and that the police would look into it.
Contrary to its European neighbours, England did not have a tradition of professional police forces. Crime prevention was carried out by a combination of the town watch and the parish constabulary appointed by the justices of the peace in each county. In Great Britain during the late 1790s, anti-police views were based on the possible encroachment of absolutism through professionalised law enforcement, the obstruction of the magistrates' power and skepticism towards trusting an unfamiliar organisation.
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Anti-police sentiment
Anti-police sentiment is opposition to the police by groups or individuals. This sentiment can arise from perceptions of systemic issues within policing institutions, such as misconduct, excessive use of force, racial profiling, and corruption.
In 2021, a police officer was recorded slamming student protesters in Banten. In the same year, a woman named Novia Widyasari was found dead in front of her father's grave after she found out about her pregnancy in aftermath of the rape perpetrated by a police officer who was her boyfriend. The incident later raised the anti-police sentiment among the locals even further.
The sentiment began to resurface after the murder of Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in 2022. The killing was ordered by Inspector General Ferdy Sambo, his former boss. Police use of tear gas and incompetence in Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster also fueled this sentiment.
On 2024, a primary school teacher from Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi was arrested for allegedly disciplining a student who happens to be a son of a local police officer and asked to pay 50 million Rupiah fines. The arrest prompted anger among Indonesian internet users, flaming another anti-police sentiment in Indonesia.
Anti-Garda Síochána (Republic of Ireland police) sentiment is common among Irish Travellers, a social group with high levels of poverty, unemployment and crime. Gardaí were also accused of police brutality in the Shell to Sea protests of 2006–2011, and anti-brutality protests took place in 2007. Anti-Garda sentiment is also common in Dublin's north inner city, an area of high crime, deprivation and drug addiction. Local youths attacked Gardaí during the 2006 Dublin riots, sparked by a Love Ulster protest. The Kerry babies case of 1984 also sparked anti-Garda feeling in the area. The acronym AGAB, a variation on ACAB, is sometimes used.
In Poland, the abbreviation CHWDP is used with the meaning of "a dick in the police's ass." It often appears as graffiti.
A series of riots took place in Sweden in April 2022 after Danish-born, right-wing activist Rasmus Paludan attempted to hold a series of Quran burning demonstrations in the country. Counterprotesters responded by attacking participants and engaging in rioting, often getting into violent clashes with police. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg said that, in some cases, protesters "tried to kill police." In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Kivanc Atak of Stockholm University interpreted the riots to be unusual as, unlike most incidents causing conflict between police and minorities, the unrest was not directed against a specific case of police misconduct nor even the subject in general. Manne Gerell of Malmö University further added that some of those involved in the unrest might have been seeking to vent general frustration against police, such as over the use of stop and search powers. Anders Thornberg said some rioters were suspected to have "[had] links to criminal gangs" and that the police would look into it.
Contrary to its European neighbours, England did not have a tradition of professional police forces. Crime prevention was carried out by a combination of the town watch and the parish constabulary appointed by the justices of the peace in each county. In Great Britain during the late 1790s, anti-police views were based on the possible encroachment of absolutism through professionalised law enforcement, the obstruction of the magistrates' power and skepticism towards trusting an unfamiliar organisation.