ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.

Eat a dick.

Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.

Tomorrow, Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund finally gets his Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Today, @beedelores.bsky.social looks back at some of the most underrated characters in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise: