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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I don’t have a link but Last Week Tonight was amazing. He goes off on Police Unions and the fact they’re complicit in all this. It’s not just the Police brotherhood that’s basically a criminal empire, it’s the Unions.
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Yeah. Because people thought I was joking when I said Police are 'Above the Law' because they effectively cant be disciplined for their transgressions.
Someone does something bad and they either circle the wagons to protect him or they just all do it....'cant fire us all!'
Again, I'm not going to deep-dive into the pros and cons of Organized Labour because there absolutely are benefits but the current state of some Unions has transformed from their original purposes and mandates and effectively just become Gangs.
And Police Unions are a hilarious caricature of that.
These guys stand together against the world!
Um? You mean....the population that you're sworn and employed to protect?
Unions have a tendency to be inherently adversarial. They have desires but are notoriously adverse to change, and even if they are willing the sheer Bureaucracy that they involve makes it either prohibitive or impossible.
The Union concept is a good one and I believe in workers having the right to bargain collectively, but the state of Unions in this day and age is not that.
It is broken. As current events have made clearly apparent.
Police need protection, but it cant be immunity from consequences.