Possibly hot take, but ACAB doesn’t apply to fictional cops for the most part, because in many fictional settings the world is written to be fundamentally different such that police actually are the unambiguous good guys outside of individual crooked cops. Ergo, unless the setting has written for the allowance of the principle of ACAB, then ACAB does not apply in fictional settings.

I mean he doesn’t exist in real life so he’s already inherently better than pigs

I would say Max is mostly just a bastard and cop is a subgenre of bastard he dabbles in. He’s also pretty big into being a righteous bastard so maybe it evens out 🤷‍♂️