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"Loose cannons" are never good as cops. No matter how much you delude yourself they're completely moral and even if that were 100% true they wouldn't be good cops. Cops aren't justice. They're law enforcement.
Someone applying their own morality all the time instead of laws should never ever be a cop. That's why ACAB.
A reminder that we're talking about choosing between lesser evils here. Would you rather an immoral by-the-book Auror/cop in league with Voldemort/Hitler or a moral loose cannon like Harry?
How do you feel about ICE arresting people for immigration offenses?
How do you feel about the DEA prosecuting people for cannabis?
There's nuance here, and you're pretending there isn't.
"No but you have to understand, All Cops might Be Bastards but they're could be way worse bastards!"
Wow what a magnificent argument.
Do you not understand that things are clearly immoral should lead to law enforcement refusing to enforce the laws. It doesn't mean they get to decide which laws to enforce or not, willy nilly, but if someone says "go an arrest every minority out there" they can say 'that's unconstitutional and I won't do it, you can fire me and then I'll sue you' or whatever it is you do there.
What you CAN'T do is become law enforcement and then use that authority while being completely arbitrary about laws.
The only reason I'm not a cop is because drugs are illegal (and some other laws but mainly those.)