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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 388: Ashley Madison Cawthorn
BlAcK TuRtLe 05/15/22 10:14:39 PM #238:	StealThisSheen posted... Normal work unions are designed to protect workers from the predatory practices of their employers/superiors. Police have no employers/superiors to need to be protected from. They ARE their own boss. Thus, in practice, all a police union does is fight to keep them from being held accountable in court/etc. for their actions. This is false on a bunch of levels. The "employer/superiors" of the police are the government. Ultimately the employers/superiors of the government are the people. Police unions protect individual officers who are garbage/incompetent at their jobs from facing any of the consequences that should fall on them. I truly feel if organizations like BLM focused on this point (along with stringent body cam regulations), they would have found far more support. Instead they pushed a nebulous and nonsensical "defund the police" narrative that was further confused by other groups pushing for "more mental health psychology majors" and less armed/trained officers. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! <cite>BlAcK TuRtLe posted [p:965064736] in Politics C... [t:80014769]...</cite> <quote>StealThisSheen posted... </cite> <quote>Normal work unions are designed to protect workers from the predatory practices of their employers/superiors. Police have no employers/superiors to need to be protected from. They ARE their own boss. Thus, in practice, all a police union does is fight to keep them from being held accountable in court/etc. for their actions.</quote>This is false on a bunch of levels. The "employer/superiors" of the police are the government. Ultimately the employers/superiors of the government are the people. Police unions protect individual officers who are garbage/incompetent at their jobs from facing any of the consequences that should fall on them. I truly feel if organizations like BLM focused on this point (along with stringent body cam regulations), they would have found far more support. Instead they pushed a nebulous and nonsensical "defund the police" narrative that was further confused by other groups pushing for "more mental health psychology majors" and less armed/trained officers. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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