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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Explain how so? Any time a case of police incompetence gets enough mainstream attention, the hammer absolutely gets brought down on them, sometimes to levels that don't make sense given the crime committed. The BLM riots, Jan 6 riot and all the "trucker convoys" over the last 2 years have show that the police are very much scared of people "rising up"

Pfft. It took Derek Chauvin kneeling on a man's neck for almost nine minutes, AND the whole incident being recorded, live, before one of the most clear-cut instances of police misconduct was actually punished in a proper fashion. Most of the time this shit happens, there's a defense force claiming "he feared for his life, fair, next" or finding some reason why the victim deserved to die for some misdemeanor.

The reason a police union is different is spelled out in your own explanation. In a labor union, the management holds greater power than the employees, so it benefits the employees to unionize to protect themselves from mistreatment (either in terms of having wages kept artificially low, or being retaliated against for non-offenses). But with a police union, the boss is the government, who are appointed by the people, so the police union is a defense against the people...which would be fine, except the very nature of police gives them inherent power over the common populace. So effectively, the police have more power than the people in doing their job, AND they have more power than the people in terms of accountability.